If your instance invents fake users for voting, that is very easy to spot if you view the profile and its all empty. So you need to add a profile picture, bio and some posts as well. But if the names and avatars are all similar, or the posts are obviously LLM generated, its still quite easy to spot manipulation. Or if the modlog for that user has entries for vote manipulation. On the other hand if there is only the total number of votes, there is no way at all to see if they are legit.

I think a much better option for vote privacy is what Piefed tried using “Local-only votes”. So privacy-conscious users can choose that their votes are not federated, and then only the local admin can see them. This could be a simple boolean user setting, or could be more granular to allow/disallow vote federation with specific instances.

Here it is: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/1a11/fep-1a11.md

By the way sent you a private message, hope you received that.

Do you think it would make sense renaming Active to Hot and vice versa?

Securing major industrial hubs, in case Germany ever decides to go against US interests.

Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.

In your imagination it can always be Friday! Don’t be one of those people who live in “real life” because it’s quite boring.

Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.

And also the governments of many other countries like UK, Germany, Israel etc. Yes other countries do exist ;)

Oh yes, I need to rewatch this one!

MediaWiki is a much bigger project, with probably dozens of developers working on it full-time. It has a lot more features. Ibis on the other hand is only a small project which I’m developing on the side. If Wikipedia wanted to federate, the best option would be adding that logic directly into MediaWiki.

Oops youre right, I closed registrations a while ago as I wasnt working on Ibis and there were too many spam accounts. Opened it for now, later I need to add something like Lemmy’s registration application.

Highly qualified people are probably not interested in working for the government. Or maybe this was outsourced to some cheap private company, who knows.

Yes that is what I mean, admins can only see private messages that their own local users are either sending or receiving. Not from users on other instances.

I agree that privacy is important, but most admins probably couldnt care less what their users are writing in private messages. And there is a tradeoff between implementing end-to-end encryption, or implementing other features that may be more important.

Setting an instance is easy, but actually getting a significant amount of users is much more difficult. And as admin you can only see the private messages of your local users, no one else. So if you are not talking about illegal stuff the risk is negligible. And if you are, use a real messenger application or better yet avoid all computers.

Private messages are completely private, you as normal user can never see someone elses private message. The only ones who can theoretically read private messages from other users are instance admins. Exactly the same on Reddit or Twitter by the way. But if any admin actually does that, people would quickly spread the word and leave that instance.

End-to-end encryption does add some extra security in that admins also cannot read other users private messages. I dont think that people really send very sensitive information through Lemmy private messages, it is better to use an actual messenger application for that.

And some developers are bad at design/css (like me).

You can make a pull request here: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/blob/master/assets/ibis.css