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I know you are being sarcastic and edgy but point is that voting is assumed to be private by the average person because it is anonymous in elections, it is anonymous on the closest social platform Reddit and popular websites like youtube.

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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I don’t know how to break this… But voting in Lemmy is not choosing a president.

Voting is like booing or clapping in a public agora. It’s not private. If you assume is private that’s on you.

Not even on your beloved reddit. Reddit admins know all your votes.

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- npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Admins know but users don’t.
  
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  - daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That’s precisely your issue before. Voting in reddit is not private as admins know that info and can share with anyone so the “bad voter” could get prosecuted. But users, like you, think it’s private because they don’t see it.
    
    Be consistent with your argument at least.
    
    I will disengage here. Bye!
    
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    npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    How likely is an admin to share something with someone else vs something being already public?
    
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  - nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Mods can also see them for their communities iirc.
    
    But it’s part of the activity pub protocol and how things work between federated platforms. Some platforms display the votes in public for everyone
    
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s a federated platform. How could voting have been anonymous?

Besides, nothing requires you to vote on posts. If you’re not comfortable voting, then don’t vote.

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- npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I am okay with votes being public but then it should be made explicitly clear to users.
  
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  - Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The people I trust the least on these platforms are the admins and owners of them. Your voting wasn’t anonymous on reddit to those people either.
    
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n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
And reddit also has a problen where you can use bots to farm upvotes and because you cant see that information means you cant tell if posts are legit or propaganda

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