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.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Please be aware that votes are effectively already public, just not shown in the Lemmy UI.
DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.