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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Votes are already public? If they weren't, federation of votes wouldn't be possible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the change would make it accessible to non-admin users

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can already see who gave you a thumbs up using mbin and I am not an admin.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's bad and Mbin should change it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe. There are likely both *bin users who agree and disagree. Even if they all agreed and removed it, though, there isn't much stopping others from running older versions, patching it back in, or even starting entirely new software that does the same. The fundamental issue, the false privacy of the voting system, remains.

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

I don't think Mbin users don't like it. It increases users interaction and activity, because you can see people who up vote your posts, not only void numbees and even a lurker causes an increase in activity. They shouldn't change anything.

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

Which is a good point, I included it in my longer comment here

https://lemmy.ca/comment/11097046

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

hypothetically, I suppose it could alternately be done by instances just federating the number of votes from their instance and only storing who voted what internally. Though then you might get issues with very easy vote manipulation if a server just says a lot of people voted a certain way without needing to make accounts to "justify" the fake votes.