Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

Rimu · edit-2 8M

Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

Drasglaf · 8M

I say make them public. It was like that on Kbin and it never brought trouble.

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 8M

Anecdotes are cool.

Drasglaf · 8M

Way cooler than astroturfing.

@MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml · 8M

I value my privacy more than my exposure to astroturfing. Giving up privacy in exchange for more less astroturfing isn’t a sacrifice I’m willing to make but if you are, go for it I guess.

Drasglaf · edit-2 8M

If your privacy is at risk in a place like Lemmy, you might be giving up too much private information IMHO.

@MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml · 8M

Sure sounds like a lot of victim blaming to me. If someone upvoted a post in their city’s regional instance but never commented, it’s insane to me that a) that vote should be publicly viewable and b) people would blame the user.

Drasglaf · edit-2 8M

That’s a fair point, but I still think it’s a very specific case. I believe it would benefit way more than harm the fediverse in general.

Like others have said, maybe do it opt-in, so each instance can choose whether they want to have it or not.

@MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml · 8M

Opt in would be far more of a reasonable option .

Drasglaf · 8M

The problem I see with that is, bad actors only need to make accounts in instances that opted out to keep doing their thing. But yes, I think they’ll choose this option in the end.

@Ghostbanjo1949@lemmy.mengsk.org · 8M

What is the benefit here in this case? Basically why do we care who upvotes or downvotes something that it needs to be exposed?

Drasglaf · 8M

Obviously I don’t have all the answers, but from my point of view it would help against things like astroturfing or vote manipulation.