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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I say no. Privacy.

Comments say they're already basically public. I don't know anything about that, but it's probably better to merely have a camera in your toilet than have a camera in your toilet that livestreams 24/7.

But I don't have an especially informed sense of how to run a platform so maybe there's a bunch of crap I'm not thinking about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I say we put a camera directly on the asshole

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This guy scats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Agree. I may be misunderstanding something here, but to view votes one would have to spin up their own instance. This would prevent your average abusive moron from harassing users who down voted their post/comment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

All you need to do is look at the post from a federated instance running software that doesn't hide the information. Here is a link to your post from my instance, which shows upvote info: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1097629/Lemmy-devs-are-considering-making-all-votes-public-have-your/comment/6869259/favourites

To view down votes, they might need to host their own instance? I don't know offhand of another software that shows downvote information, but even though Mbin does not show it, I think it should still be accessible if you're running the instance yourself and looking directly at the database.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, I may be wrong, but spinning up your own instance would also let you see new votes from now on, not votes on old posts. Which makes it even harder for trolls and morons.