Not advocating for defederation, I’m just pointing out that blocking an instance isn’t going to achieve their goal.

Obviously defederation is too large scale. Ideally, there would be an option for people to block users from the instance when blocking an instance, or something like that.

This would avoid the exact scenario you mention because it would come down to the user level, so that troll would have to put in quite a bit more effort to get around that. Unfortunately, that’s not currently an option, along with some other features I’d love to see on Lemmy.

Again, I’m just pointing out that blocking an instance does not achieve their goal.

You can block the instance, which blocks those communities, but that doesn’t block those users on them to be fair. That has to be done individually.

Personally I am comfortable ignoring individuals (and not painting everyone on an instance with the same brush) and would prefer metas/groups/whatever you’d like to refer to them as for my subscriptions, so I’m definitely not the target user of this post.

But just being clear, a user blocking an instance doesn’t block the users from that instance, so if that’s their goal, no, that’s not enough.

https://iceshrimp.dev/

Yup, all visible. The only exceptions are fully private instances (or mostly private, with limited federation) and local only communities.

kbin/mbin also make all these votes public, so you could even just be on an mbin server and see all the votes. So right now its like… jumping over an 8" high hurdle. Or doing the limbo under a pole at 5’. You have to do something, just not much. I wouldn’t call it completely non-trivial to do, but it isn’t rocket surgery either.

As far as I know right now, IP and such details are your instance only.

Votes, however, are visible across any instance. I agree its a transparency issue. Right now I think a of of folks believe their votes to be anonymous (or only visible to their instance admins at most), but that’s not true at all.

Anyone can stand up an instance though. So its available for anyone to look at right now.

I don’t think it should be made easier, but I don’t think its fair to suggest its currently private in any way, shape, or form today.

Because it is decidedly not.

I absolutely agree that its a problem. The problem is there is nothing stopping companies/governments from doing that now, and I don’t know if its feasible to make them actually private on Lemmy.

Right now, they aren’t private, you just need a few extra steps to see it all.

The problem is its already pretty public, just for mods and admins, and non-lemmy instances.

While I agree its not ideal to have everything be public, given it functionally already is, this just makes it easier for users to see. Right now its a minor hurdle, but still a hurdle - but your votes are not really private/anonymous to start with.