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Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Hard no. I’ll move on like I did a year ago from Reddit, and I was on that site for 14 years.

Just from a political/nation-state viewpoint, it would needlessly expose information to make it easier for countries and political parties to keep some kind of “social score” and decide when to do something to you. China already does this kind of stuff.

We need to make it easier for everyone/anyone to do this? Think about all of the super-divisive issues at hand. People can already get a sense of your views from your responses, and that should be it.

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
State/nation actors can easily track this information without an UI setting. Just set up any software that uses activitypub and subscribe to any AP group (i.e, Lemmy community) that you want to get up votes/downvotes (Like/Dislike activities).

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- intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Man I would have assumed that information would be cryptographically obfuscated while still being verifiable, like monero.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How would it work? The other instances still need to know what actor is behind the activity.
    
    Also, why? This is social media, not official elections. “Votes” here are completely meaningless.
    
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    intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    How would it work?
    
    Like monero. However monero does it is the strategy I propose.
    
    why?
    
    For the same reason it’s not readily available already.
    
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Fillicia@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just so you’re aware

kbin.earth/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/…/favourites

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- Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m not sure what this is supposed to tell me, sorry man.
  
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  - taaz@biglemmowski.win ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That yor votes are already public.
    
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  - Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you open via browser, it linked to this post but in Kbin, there you can find your comment and click “More” then “Activity”, click the “Favorite” tab and you can see the people who voted your comment.
    
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SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Votes are already public, lemmy just doesn’t let you see them in the interface.

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