hypothetically, I suppose it could alternately be done by instances just federating the number of votes from their instance and only storing who voted what internally. Though then you might get issues with very easy vote manipulation if a server just says a lot of people voted a certain way without needing to make accounts to “justify” the fake votes.
Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
Aradina@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Votes are already public? If they weren’t, federation of votes wouldn’t be possible.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
otter@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I think the change would make it accessible to non-admin users
lemmy_99c4zb3e3@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
rimu@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
That's bad and Mbin should change it.
mke@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe. There are likely both Mbin users who agree and disagree. Even if they all agreed and removed it, though, there isn’t much stopping others from running older versions, patching it back in, or even starting entirely new software that does the same. The fundamental issue, the false privacy of the voting system, remains.
otter@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Which is a good point, I included it in my longer comment here
lemmy.ca/comment/11097046