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

submitted 3 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] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Its best if the rules are the same for anyone, but public votes is something power hungry mods will eventually abuse. If you dare upvote the wrong post you will get banned.

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

All it will take is for folks to look and see you voted in something and they won't see the context or will misunderstand your intentions and they'll ban you. This shit happened back on Reddit too and it sucked. They'd blanket ban people who interacted in a community without looking at what you actually did.

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

Sounds like mods and admins can already do this, and if the barrier to entry to being an admin is firing up a Docker container, I don't see the purpose in restricting users from seeing it