[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    I accept if a dozen people can see my votes.

    That’s not what you’re saying.

    Ultimately I’m not invested in this decision. If the instance wants to watch people vote then people stop voting truly or at all.

    • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.devEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      Except, if you’re using anything other than Lemmy at this point that information is already about. The Likes/Dislikes are considered public information by the protocol. Lemmy devs probably just didn’t get around to building out the UI for that before the Reddit APIcolypse.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        If anything, Lemmy devs should work on methods to obscure user identities, not expose them.

        One of the biggest issues with the fediverse is very specifically how much user information can be exposed outside your home instance. As has been pointed out in this thread, it is very easy for rogue instance admins to set up quiet data mining instances.

        It seems like it should be relatively straightforward for certain activities, like votes and telemetry, to be anonymized/tokenized for the purposes of federation, since that information all propagates outward from the home instance anyway.

      • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Lemmy actually marks votes as private for federation, but it seems that kbin/mbin ignore that.