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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

On Lemmy, only admins and mods can see them. But on many other fediverse apps, like Mbin for instance, the votes are public to anyone. For instance, here's the votes for my comment you replied to as seen from Mbin.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh lol so even if the Lemmy devs made it private, mbin and others would let you see them anyway?

Also, what is mbin? A kbin fork?

Also rip. I'm really not a fan of public upvotes/downvotes. I think it will lead to people harassing each other. Let's be realistic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, the underlying protocol does not support private votes. This has been mentioned plenty of times in the thread as well.

Yes it is a kbin fork I believe.

Also rip. I’m really not a fan of public upvotes/downvotes. I think it will lead to people harassing each other. Let’s be realistic.

I mean, I'm honestly not convinced it will lead to as many problems as people think it will. But I think we should let each instance decide for itself whether to have it public or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well even if an instance decides to hide it, people on other platforms can still see it? Or do i misunderstand?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, exactly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yea then I guess the argument is moot lol. Oh well. Not a fan of it but seems to come with the federation territory.