Is private voting still working? I can see that the setting now specifies that it will only use the anonymized voting account when sending the vote to untrusted instances. However, when checking from sh.itjust.works, which doesn’t appear on the list of trusted instances, I can still see my votes are not anonymized. So either it’s not working properly, or sh.itjust.works is actually labeled as a trusted instance despite not appearing on this list.

https://piefed.social/instances?filter=trusted

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    Is private voting still working?

    Technically - yeah.
    Screenshot from my dev instance (where my username is /u/andrew)

    My guess would be, that for the post you’re viewing, it was part of a community that’s on an instance that’s trusted, and that instance has then Announced out the vote for the likes of sh.itjust.works to see. If that’s the case, then the idea of ‘trusted instances’ breaks private voting, because it only really works if the untrusted instance also happens to be hosting the relevant community.

    I’m not really a fan of the ideas about ‘privacy’ where votes and follower counts are concerned (even to the extent implemented by Lemmy). I’m not saying this to be argumentative, just giving my excuses why I haven’t been paying attention to it.

    • imaqtpie@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Ok great, that makes sense. The post was on a lemmy.world community, which is a trusted instance.

      I’m not too worried about private voting either, I was just trying to boost my own post and I happened to notice this behavior. I see it as more of a demonstration of the technical possibilities of how federation can be handled than a critical feature. Good to know that things are working as intended.