If your instance invents fake users for voting, that is very easy to spot if you view the profile and its all empty. So you need to add a profile picture, bio and some posts as well. But if the names and avatars are all similar, or the posts are obviously LLM generated, its still quite easy to spot manipulation. Or if the modlog for that user has entries for vote manipulation. On the other hand if there is only the total number of votes, there is no way at all to see if they are legit.

I think a much better option for vote privacy is what Piefed tried using “Local-only votes”. So privacy-conscious users can choose that their votes are not federated, and then only the local admin can see them. This could be a simple boolean user setting, or could be more granular to allow/disallow vote federation with specific instances.

Here it is: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/1a11/fep-1a11.md

By the way sent you a private message, hope you received that.

Do you think it would make sense renaming Active to Hot and vice versa?

Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.

Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.

Oh yes, I need to rewatch this one!