Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy
dan@upvote.au 1 day ago
It’s literally impossible to have private upvotes and downvotes with a federated service. Additionally, a lot of other social media sites have public votes/likes, as long as the content is public. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Discord, LinkedIn, Telegram (if you consider it social media?), and probably some others all have public likes by default.
npdean@lemmy.today 1 day ago
It is okay to have public votes but it should be made clear to the users. Instagram and others allow you to see who has liked easily (next to the like button), so everyone knows it is public. Lemmy does not let me see who voted easily and it being a reddit alternative further makes it seem anonymous.
dan@upvote.au 1 day ago
Lemmy does have a way to view votes, but it’s only visible to admins. I’m not sure why they did it that way.
npdean@lemmy.today 1 day ago
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