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Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently, almost anyone in the Fediverse can see Lemmys votes. Lemmy admins can see votes, as well as mods. Only regular Lemmy users can't. Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?

There is a discussion going on right now considering "making the Lemmy votes public" but I think that premisse is just wrong. The votes are public already, they're just hidden from Lemmy users. Anyone from a kbin/mbin/fedia instance can check out the votes if they are so inclined.

The users right now may fall into a false sense of privacy when voting because the votes are hidden from Lemmy users. If you want to vote something and not show up on the vote list, please create another account to support that type of content and don't tell anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not technical and I'm also not young.

I think anyone coming into an online social platform who thinks that any part of it is private, is too naive and/or uneducated to be using that type of platform.

I'm sure there's parts of platforms which are private, I just don't think it's advisable to assume that at any point.

You're online, interacting with people. If you wanted privacy, don't be there doing that. Post and behave as if you are publishing everything to a major commercial physical publication. Every post, every comment, every vote, every blocked user. On every one of your accounts.

Otherwise, you'll get what's coming to you. And I'm fine with that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah. If you're on a public forum accessible to anyone, which the whole fediverse is, then you should never assume privacy.

Honestly transparency in this regard would be better - they're already visible to much of the community, so they might as well be visible to everyone.