Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy

• gazby@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s the other way around here: Everything is public except where it’s made clear that it won’t be (e.g. email address, password).

  For what it’s worth, your instance of choice is particularly negligent in regard to informing its users. Compare lemmy.today/legal to lemmy.world/legal, or their respective signup pages for examples. There’s little that Lemmy itself or the community at large can do about that 😞

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  • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It needs to be fixed. Every user is having a different user experience during account creation but everyone’s information is being federated equally.

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    • gazby@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They don’t seem very active, but you can try reaching your instance admin at lemmy.today/u/mrmanager

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      • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It is not the problem of my instance per se. It is a problem for all instances because everyone has to agree to instance terms but they kind of are agreeing to all instances’ terms.

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• dirtydocmark@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is made clear because there is an option to see all the votes right next to the like button. Similarly, many sites allow you to go through activity of people you follow.

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    • dirtydocmark@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can see the number of votes here too.

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      • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I can see the number of votes but not who voted. This gives the impression that this information is not available publicly. However, it can be accessed by anyone on third party websites.

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  • zeca@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think its a fair assumption that most people make that whatever data which isnt explicitly displayed to a regular user is not public. Having likes be public but hidden is misleading.

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  An EU resident could sue for emotional damages under the GDPR. Or maybe just complain to data protection authorities.

  One day it will happen.

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  • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I hope it does. Lemmy should not get benefit of the doubt just because it is open source

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