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.

  • FundMECFS@piefed.zipOPEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    No. I mean last I was aware piefed votes are not tied to your account. You have an anonymous “voting account” seperate from your account.

    this makes you think they’re private. But in reality its really easy to link those accounts.

    BTW I completely hide vote counts on posts, I use the voyager frontend for this

    • Libb@piefed.socialMEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      BTW I completely hide vote counts on posts, I use the voyager frontend for this

      I only browse on my PC using the browser and I can’t find any option to hide those. I barely use my phone to be honest and refuse to use any social platform on it (privacy concerns).

        • Libb@piefed.socialMFrançais
          2·
          2 days ago

          Thx, I will look at that :)

          is this something to add (somewhere) in the browser or to use in an extension like uBO?

          • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            You add it in your PieFed profile settings. PieFed itself does this. Short instruction is pinned to the CSS community: https://piefed.social/post/853802

            Gear icon on the top right, should bring you to the Settings tab for your account. Then scroll down to “Additional CSS” and copy-paste it there. Don’t forget to use the Save button.

            For example, to remove the score everywhere and the down-vote buttons, you’d enter something like this:

            /* Remove score displays everywhere */  
.score {  
  display: none !important;  
}  
/* Remove downvote buttons everywhere */  
.downvote_button {  
  display: none !important;  
}
            • Libb@piefed.socialMEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Thx a lot. I had never noticed this feature.

              I will not remove all up/downvote a I think it’s worth being able to upvote useful/enriching comment (like yours) but know I have an option to consider and explore: could I remove just the displayed total of upvotes/downvotes (that part I really don’t care about) and maybe the ‘Attitude’ stats displayed under my profile. Thx again :)

              • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                The score is just the first 4 lines, up to (and including) the first closing curly bracket.
                I’m afraid the Attitude and Reputation on the profile page can’t be handled this way (with CSS) as they’re not in some sort of container. You’d need to write a feature request and have that changed in PieFed’s program code.

                • Libb@piefed.socialMEnglish
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  Once again, thank you very much. I just did that it’s working nice :)

                  For anyone curious, here is what it looks like now:

                  38BJGM3TEG85Saz.jpg

    • Libb@piefed.socialMEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Oh, thx for the clarification (and feel free to ignore my own noise, then).

      Never heard of that. What is it used for?