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  • While not a perfect solution, this seems very smart. It’s a great mitigation tactic to try to keep user’s privacy intact.

    Seems to me there’s still routes to deanonymization:

    1. Pull posts that a user has posted or commented in
    2. Do an analysis of all actors in these posts. The poster’s voting actor will be over represented (if they act like I assume most users do. I upvote people I reply to etc)
    3. if the results aren’t immediately obvious, statistical analysis might reveal your target.

    Piefed is smaller than lemmy, right? So if only one targeted posting account is voting somewhat consistently in posts where few piefed users vote/post/view, you got your guy.

    Obviously this is way harder than just viewing votes. Not sure who would go to the trouble. But a deanonymization attack is still possible. Perhaps rotate the ids of the voting accounts periodically?