Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 weeks agoI know. But don’t you have to be an instance asmin to see them? Or can anyone do it? I feel like most people have no idea how to do it? Seems like a change if everyone can easily do it.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
On Lemmy, only admins and mods can see them. But on many other fediverse apps, like Mbin for instance, the votes are public to anyone. For instance, here’s the votes for my comment you replied to as seen from Mbin: kbin.melroy.org/m/…/favourites
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 weeks ago
Oh lol so even if the Lemmy devs made it private, mbin and others would let you see them anyway?
Also, what is mbin? A kbin fork?
Also rip. I’m really not a fan of public upvotes/downvotes. I think it will lead to people harassing each other. Let’s be realistic.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
Yes, the underlying protocol does not support private votes. This has been mentioned plenty of times in the thread as well.
Yes it is a kbin fork I believe.
I mean, I’m honestly not convinced it will lead to as many problems as people think it will. But I think we should let each instance decide for itself whether to have it public or not.