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1. dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jul-2018 21:16:34 EDT dansup

   I wonder how peertube handles federated view counts.

   It would be easy to manipulate unless you have authenticity in a public record like you do with likes. In this case, that would be a privacy nightmare.

   cc @Chocobozzz

   1. Chocobozzz (chocobozzz@framapiaf.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Jul-2018 02:53:43 EDT Chocobozzz

      in reply to

      @dansup It's just a view object the instance sends. It could be manipulated yep, but in fact it's the same for likes/dislikes: an instance can easily create fake actors