This would require a major change in the underlying ActivityPub protocol. This isn’t going to happen for years, if ever.
Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
IndianaJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I was of the assumption they were private. Please make them private then because I want no one looking at my votes
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
They can’t be completely private because instances have to share how many upvotes each post has. That’s a limitation of the fediverse, since everything is spread across many independent systems, data has to be exchanged across them.
As of now, they’re semi-private because end users can’t easily see who voted on a post/comment unless they manage an instance themselves.
IndianaJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I know the amount of votes has to be shared, but I don’t see why other moderators (hell, even mods of the main instance) need to be able to see who voted on what
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So votes are not easily manipulated?
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If they did that, anyone could spin up an instance and start just fabricating votes and there’d be no way to know