Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy
npdean@lemmy.today 7 months agoI 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.
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.
Admins know but users don’t.
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!
How likely is an admin to share something with someone else vs something being already public?
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.
I am okay with votes being public but then it should be made explicitly clear to users.
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.
True but it is very less likely that admins will target a specific person when they know that information is private and they will get caught easily. Here, other than admins, every user can easily target someone.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 7 months 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
npdean@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Anyone can make multiple accounts and vote farm here too.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
No shit, but if you’re getting 1000 upvotes from the same bangledeshi or Russian IP you can a least figure it out, hey its prolly not legit…
npdean@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Thing is votes are federated. if someone makes an instance and farms votes by making bots on same instance, only instance owner has info about IPs. Every other instance thinks the votes are legit.