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The accuracy of the votes (lack or vote fuzzing) and the ability to view the split of upvotes and downvotes individually, as well as who voted for what
The latter point can be seen as a kind of disadvantage though. I don't like the fact that anyone who is an admin on any instance can go to another instance and see the identity of every voter on any post.
You can view who votes for things? I think that's a kbin thing, isn't it?
No, it's on Lemmy too
As part of the mod log? Or somewhere else
It's just an option on every post
https://i.imgur.com/j5ZB8vi.png
On the regular Lemmy UI you can see the option if you're an admin (on any instance, not just the one the comment was made on)
I've never seen that before. I wonder if it's an instance dependent setting?
It is limited to admins
And anyone can be an admin. You can just make an instance and appoint yourself an admin. So in practice it's not limited to anybody.
Having a look at your screenshot again, upvotes are indeed visible (they are using Kbin too for every user).
Example for this thread: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/583932/What-does-Lemmy-do-better-than-Reddit/favourites
Is it the same for downvotes?
Yes
It's honestly a big downside. I can see it being useful for admins on their own instances to detect brigades or vote manipulation coming from different servers, but I don't like that they are public, because it could discourage people from voting honestly on topics where they could potentially be harassed for engaging
Well, if someone gets harassed for voting then the harasser should be banned, just as if you get harassed for any other reason. So it's not any different than posts or comments in that way.
Thanks
That's interesting, I thought you could only see votes for communities from instances where you are an admin.