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Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There are plenty of ways to handle double voting without plaintext user strings. The fact that it's done this way is just lazy and poor design and doesn't actually do anything to prevent a rogue instance from vote spamming with fake users.