Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Have you SEEN the drama that happens in this place? I feel like this is just asking for weird nobodies to harass anyone who quietly disagrees with them.
If this passes then I’m outta here.
Why would this encourage harrassment? It would just expose harrassment.
There are bots that exist solely to downvote specific users and instances. If you and JacobRimJob downvote each other every time you see each other and eventually argue about it until it devolves into passionate lovemaking, tbats not what harrassment is.
It would encourage harassment the same way comment history does: someone goes looking for it, sees it, and attacks the person over it.
If I say some shit you disagree with then feel free to engage with me. I’m literally here for discussions. What are you here for?
You should not be ashamed of your vote history.
I agree, people shouldn’t be ashamed of their vote history unless they are trying to harass a person or community with a pattern of downvotes.
I still don’t want to be harassed for my voting though, nor will I be pressured into defending my votes if a user brings it up.
Or just block them.
Yeah, blocked users cannot see or vote on your content.
Are you sure? I thought blocking a user just prevented you from seeing their responses.
I am not 100% but I am like 98.9%
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
Please be aware that votes are effectively already public, just not shown in the Lemmy UI.
DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I was unaware of that. I thought it was only accessible to instance admins, and I think that’s how it should be.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
In Lemmy, only admins and mods can see votes. But most other ActivityPub implementations show votes freely and there’s nothing in the protocol that makes votes private. Votes are inherently public - they are only hidden behind a curtain that is very easy to get around in Lemmy.
maegul@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I mean, this starts to get moot if no one is aware doesn’t it. You might dismiss the design as merely artificial obscurity, but if no one is pulling up the data, then the obscurity is working. The “curtain” you cite isn’t trivial for the vast majority of users, which is what this is all about. Starting an instance and extracting the desirable data is a pretty tall hurdle where just the effort alone is prohibitive and enough to give someone a chance to calm down.
DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I forgot other fediverse platforms interact with this place. So upvotes translate to likes on mastodon and other platforms? I still feel like this should be anonymized, but I also get how that could be exploited since likes aren’t auditable in that case.