Mr_Blott , 4 months ago to lemmyshitpost in One day 👏

#I for@ #ONE am quite #HAPPY @I don’t #HAVETO @look @ comments #LIKE @this all day

e569668 , 11 months ago to fediverse in "ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora"

There's some relevant discussion here and in the thread linked by ernest in that post here. I don't want to give any wrong information, but I don't think activitypub has a spec for downvotes/reduces/dislikes, just likes and shares (boosting). So on mastodon dislikes definitely aren't federated. I believe for lemmy, they federate between lemmy instances that have them enabled, but for kbin they are local to your instance.

dukk , 11 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

If that is a solution you’d need to change the ActivityPub specification. You are more than welcome to submit your idea.

AFAIK, the ActivityPub specification has no requirements on how likes should be stored. The two things that is requires are that likes are added to the user’s liked collection, and that the post’s like count is updated.

This is also not compatible with the ActivityPub spec but even if it were you’d win nothing because as soon as you fetch the post it is still on the server.

Mastodon actually just stores all this data on the server containing the post itself. Instance admins get as much information about the post as the client does. Both Lemmy and Mastodon use the same protocol, but Mastodon chooses to only to trust the server the user is using, and not the third-party servers.

I’d first have to create 2000 users, then I’d have to send 2000 upvotes. And then I’d get blocked by all instances.

Creating that many users wouldn’t be hard to do(you don’t need to use the GUI, just a little SQL is all that’s needed). And you don’t need to “send” the upvotes; you can sidestep the protocol entirely and just update the database. That’s the problem.

And while yeah, the instances would block me, they probably wouldn’t notice if I did it at a much smaller scale. In fact, there’s no real easy way to check whether these upvotes from an instance are actually real.