Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
In my opinion this setting should be set by the use. Whether they want their votes to be shown to public. If they deny Lemmy would just show “upvoted by anon” or something.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
That is not possible. The underlying protocol, ActivityPub does not have a concept of private votes. This is not up to Lemmy to decide.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I think the ActivityPub standard doesn't have a concept of votes at all. They're not defined in the first place.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
No it definitely does, it has Likes and Dislikes. Lemmy uses those for votes.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 weeks ago
Well, there definitely aren't any dislikes. But you're right with the "Like Activity". I missed that, but it's in the standard. I'm not sure though how it works, as there is more to it. On Mastodon we have boosts which do kind of a different thing. And I remember there had to be some work done to make Lemmy and Mastodon interoperate smoothly. I'm unsure if they're bot the thing that is in the standard, anyways.