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

• rglullis@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And the “we should not make it available for the public at large because it will lead to abuse” is also theoretical.

  Anyway, I’m already on record saying that I don’t like the voting system and that we should get rid of it altogether. Voting on content used to be about collective curation, not a constant popularity contest.

  I’m also on record saying that we need to stop relying on systems that only give us the illusion of privacy and depend on the software developers for culture shaping.

  If making the vote public gets people to be exposed to these fundamental issues of the current design, and leads us to search for better solutions, then I’m all for it.

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  • Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’ve already seen that kind of harrasment on major platforms including X and those owned by Meta.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This feels a bit of a conversation-shutting argument. Lots of things (good and bad) will happen on a platform that has billions of users. The real question is to about many of those instances happened solely due to the data being (easily) available to the public.

      In any case, I really don’t think that the solution to the problem of targeted harassment is by providing quote-unquote-privacy, and I’d rather we spent more time educating the people on how to use actually secure and private communications platform instead of sacrificing Transparency and Accountability for the sake of a vocal minority who will keep trying to turn the “Open Social Web” (which is meant to be open and public) into their exclusive, cocooned service.

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      • Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s because it’s supposed to be. I was on Reddit for a decade until their management shit the bed, and these kinds of problems weren’t a thing there.

        For the record, to me it’s less about privacy and more about setting expectations. I’m not anonymous online, I’m pseudonymous, I’ve had this handle for a long time. I am my online identity, and when I post and vote I don’t feel anonymous, even if I’m relatively protected from someone knocking on my door or messaging my boss about a statement.

        If voting “ledgers” aren’t presented in the discussion, that’s because they aren’t intended to be part of the discussion. This reduces the value of influential individuals votes (ooh Bill Gates liked X, Kamala Harris disliked Y etc.) and shifts focus to how the community values of the content. It’s the same reason that we follow communities rather than individuals. We get an internet “hive mind” of sorts without cult of personality.

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  • kux@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the illusion of privacy

    i am from the post usenet and pre facebook internet generation (i hope that is vague enough) so using my real name on the internet or signing up for accounts with my real name email acount is strictly verboten by indoctrination, so my opinion may be out of date or invalid somehow, but i can not see how your lemmy account’s up or down voting history violates privacy in any meaningful way

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s in the mbin ui already

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  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So the technical-skill-bar is transforming a lemmy link into the equivalent on an mbin instance? That is huge.

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