Piefed currently has anonymous — or more accurately, pseudonymous, voting.

which in my opinion is a great thing. I really think this feature is important.

However, while it works great to hide votes from casual users, the current system is trivially easy to correlate accounts to their voting profiles. Unless they adopt specific behaviours with large friction (ie. not voting on any post or comment you reply to, not voting on any community you participate in). And even then, timestamps of activity and general activity level will probably still be enough.

My question basically is, is there a plan to mitigate this? Possibly through optional features like voting profiles being ephemeral (like you get reassigned a new one every X weeks or posts).

Btw really appreciate you, piefed devs.

  • Vicinus@piefed.zip
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    2 days ago

    I’m curious to see the devs thoughts.

    This post might fit better in the piefed_meta community though.

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      2 days ago

      I know Rimu is aware of this issue, it has been brought up before. But I don’t think any conclusions were made so I was wondering if there were plans to “move forward”.

      And yeah that makes sense I’ll crosspost to piefed meta :)