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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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[–] southsamurai 3 points 3 months ago

Eh, I don't personally care.

But it could lead to nastiness as lemmy expands. If enough people go to the trouble of looking it up, you get some of them being assholes because people are prone to being assholes. That leads to drama. Drama leads to nastiness and worse things sometimes.

If that's going to be part of how lemmy works, so be it, I'm way too old to skip using a block list for assholes. But it might bite federated services in the ass, so it probably should be on the list to get implemented.

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

I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be

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

Sure, if and when we get the ability to ignore federated votes

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

Any instances that actually show public downvotes? I've seen people talk about them but haven't seen them yet

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