Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy

• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Voting is meant to be anonymous (like irl).

  Says who? Voting/likes are public on a lot of social media sites. The only mainstream ones I can think of where it’s not are YouTube and reddit.

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  • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The thing is they make it extremely clear that votes are public by letting you see who voted right next to the button.

    Lemmy hides this feature and most users don’t know about it.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, I agree that this isn’t ideal.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  person comments, they willingly put out their opinion in the public.

  Yes.

  Voting is meant to be anonymous

  No.

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• Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That is not true. Most votes irl are in fact public to the audience. Did you ever participate in a democratically organized group? Local council votes are usually done by raising hands. Votes in HOA meetings are usually done by raising hands. Your sports club deciding on a new executive and treasurer? Guess what. Raising hands.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  On most social media the voting is public, see Facebook/Twitter likes. Hell back in the days of forums you could usually see the list of users that liked a given thread in most of the forum software I ever used. Reddit was the anomaly really

  I think piefed has a feature where your votes never leave your instance, so are not exposed in this way (but obviously only appear on your home instance too)

  Agree that it should be clearer to people coming from Reddit that that’s how it works though.

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  • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The thing is they make it extremely clear that votes are public by letting you see who voted right next to the button.

    Lemmy hides this feature and most users don’t know about it.

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