I like it, it's nice to be able to bring RSS News feeds automatically into the Fediverse, and if people don't like it they can just ignore or block the communities.
I think you're misunderstanding just like the Mastodon users who think every tool should be opt-in. The consent piece IS moving to a closed system with whitelisted federation. If you're giving data out publicly with no restrictions but trying to put stipulations on how it's used, it's the same as trying to enforce control through robots.txt, which is by the way a standard protocol.
So if you're going to whine about votes being shown, you should be using a whitelist to block those actors from seeing it, and should be using authorized fetch to limit access to those whitelisted instances specifically, otherwise this is every stupid argument about "why robots.txt should be respected".
Oh I didn't know that, that's good. Though I think the point still stands since it's not a guarantee instance admins will use it (unless it's a default).
You can use the Tesseract Lemmy frontend to view votes in your communities. However it will only work on instances on version 0.19.8 or greater, so if your mod accounts are on an instance like that it won't give you the option or let you see them.
I know, it's a really big problem here and on the Fediverse in general because people get so outraged and entitled over something that just is the way things are, this wouldn't work any other way.
Except ActivityPub data is by in large already not private, it is handed out to any tom dick and harry who run a server and have subscribed to actors on this one, and most of the time, it doesn't even really require extra authorization. That is fundamentally how ActivityPub and federation work, but you can't have any expectation of privacy in this system when it comes to the content shared. Expecting it to be private because it's labeled is as dumb as expecting your website not to get scraped because you said so in robots.txt.
It's not good practice. Really one shouldn't be assuming anything is private or some entitlement to privacy on a service where all content you post is made publicly available to any and all linked instances. They miss the point of a federated public forum. If one wants privacy, data must be kept locally only. That's why Lemmy has local-only communities, the "private" community aspect that many people want just won't be federated, because you can't make something like this private otherwise.
The whole concept of the Fediverse as social media is that all the data is public. Stop acting like these servers are giving out private data. This data has never been private, and it never will be. Data like this being shared with any other server is how ActivityPub and the Fediverse work.
I posted the main thread from blahaj.zone, his comment here and all our replies don't show up on blahaj.zone at all. I checked the modlog and he was banned from the instance.
The alt? Absolutely. Dragonfucker's main isn't though. Which I find kind of crazy because of how much dragonfucker has done and then add this. That would be a permaban from most instances.
Agreed, I wish Lemmy.world's admins felt that way though. They'll probably let dragonfucker get away with this forever. Even though it is very clear that these accounts are alts of dragonfucker, or very closely connected either way. And from what I can tell incitement of harassment from your friends is still just as bannable as doing it via alts. At least it absolutely should be.
I like it, it's nice to be able to bring RSS News feeds automatically into the Fediverse, and if people don't like it they can just ignore or block the communities.