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Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I'm not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn't see much juice on the topic, so thought I'd spark it up.

Personally would like to see polls, but I'm sure there are people who don't want it too. Let me know your thoughts 🌻

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[-] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Its a good idea, but how would that work with federation? There is already an issue with the number of upvotes on a post differing between instances. Would polls have the same problem or no?

Edit: now that I think about it, polls are already a thing on Mastodon but I don't know if they have these issues or not.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Depends entirely on how it's implemented. But almost certainly yes

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It would work the exact same way, i.e. every instance would have its own idea of the results, depending on what instances are (de)federated with.

Differences in vote counts among instances is not an issue; it is by design.

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

It would be really neat to see the differences between instances that take part in the polls, I think it would work fine.

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

You would just view the poll on the instance you're curious about and it would show the result from its perspective.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Very good question, I have no idea how it could be implemented. I guess the question would have to be passed onto the developers of Lemmy. I'm sure they have already thought about it, but as you say probably difficult to implement due to federation.

[-] Barbarian 6 points 2 months ago

Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That'd be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

[ ] Yes

[ ] No

[x] Maybe

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I don't knooow

Can you repeat the question

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You're not the boss of me now!

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

Shit, it might be time for a MitM rewatch to see if it’s still aged like a fine wine.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago

I want to see lemmy grow and be a really feature rich platform with no lack in features so yes i would love to see encrypted pm, polls etc.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago

Most of the fediverse already has polls, and can post things to lemmy groups. So yeah it would be nice to be able to see them properly.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

What's a Lemmy group?

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Lemmy and other Fediverse applications use the ActivityPub protocol under the hood. The ActivityPub protocol has something called "groups", which Lemmy uses as communities. So groups and communities are the same thing essentially but other software (like Mastodon) calls groups something else and not necessarily communities. But I'm not an expert.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks for clearing that up!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

There's a very long history of calling things like lemmy communities "groups". In my case I'm old and the habit comes from Usenet.

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

My first exposure to that interchangable use in the Lemmy lexicon. Now I Know!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

If it's a community, OK. If it's something else, I definately want to know that too.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's a community

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

If we want polls we must join-lemmy.org/donate

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

I'd like to see that happen, especially if it comes with the following options to restrict the poll:

  • by time
  • by instance
  • by existing users at the time of the poll's creation
  • single choice, multiple choices, ranked choice
[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Personally, I would be in favor of having polls because I frequently involve people in taking decisions.

But my use case is quite peculiar because (1) I need to know people's opinion to take actions based on it, they would not be just informative polls (2) this group of people use Lemmy as their main interaction medium, no other platform is involved.

I've resorted to strawpoll in the past or in having comments with multiple options and relying on the most upvoted comment but these solutions have downsides.

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

Thank you for your work on Raccoon btw

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

Yeah really good app . Shame its not on the fdroid official repo tho .

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Yes. I think it would be helpful.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

I'd welcome polls implementation on Lemmy but maybe this is difficult with federation ? I wouldn't mind instance only polls.

[-] hash0772 19 points 2 months ago

Polls are already available on Mastodon (with federation) without any issues. This could probably be implemented on Lemmy too, without any problems.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Is it a proper Activitypub feature or a Mastodon hack?

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Let’s take a poll and find out!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

You could open an RFC to begin more formal discussion

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Looks like it might be cool to have.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure? Maybe also small Wikis for some communities.

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

Open polls are one of the few good things about Facebook.

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

[x] Blurgenfurl

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