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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Adding local site settings to reject federated upvotes or downvotes.

Yisss!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep this has been a growing problem, with ppl using various alt accounts on different servers to downvote things. Usually it's pretty obvious because these accounts are all from the same servers, and have little or no comments or posts.

With that setting you can be sure that all the votes at least are coming from your local users, keeping vote anonymity, and without disconnecting from the bigger servers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I actually want to suggest an extended feature where you can use an allowlist of servers allowing voting in your instance, creating in effect a affinity group of instances. I'll make a formal issue later

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool, I originally thought about doing it that way, but maintaining allowlists and blocklists for all the different types of activities could get cumbersome (especially if we add things like blocking posts, comments, communities, messages, etc). But ya that's a good issue to have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is one of those features that might not seem very huge but is a core thing that Reddit can't have. Very cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't even notice that, that's cool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

finally gives something to do with hesitated instances on fediseer!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

haven't been following what's going on with fediseer, but it's good that we have something like it! :) I especially like that cloudflare instances are automatically hesitated, and that there are different levels of mistrust

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The cloudflare thing is just a few people doing it, mind you, not everyone