Submitted 6 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.world
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A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I’m not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn’t see much juice on the topic, so thought I’d spark it up.
Personally would like to see polls, but I’m sure there are people who don’t want it too. Let me know your thoughts 🌻
[] Yes [] No [x] Maybe
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Can you repeat the question
/c/commentswithsound@lemmy.world
Shit, it might be time for a MitM rewatch to see if it’s still aged like a fine wine.
I want to see lemmy grow and be a really feature rich platform with no lack in features so yes i would love to see encrypted pm, polls etc.
Most of the fediverse already has polls, and can post things to lemmy groups. So yeah it would be nice to be able to see them properly.
What’s a Lemmy group?
Lemmy and other Fediverse applications use the ActivityPub protocol under the hood. The ActivityPub protocol has something called “groups”, which Lemmy uses as communities. So groups and communities are the same thing essentially but other software (like Mastodon) calls groups something else and not necessarily communities. But I’m not an expert.
There's a very long history of calling things like lemmy communities "groups". In my case I'm old and the habit comes from Usenet.
If it’s a community, OK. If it’s something else, I definately want to know that too.
If we want polls we must join-lemmy.org/donate
I’d like to see that happen, especially if it comes with the following options to restrict the poll:
Personally, I would be in favor of having polls because I frequently involve people in taking decisions.
But my use case is quite peculiar because (1) I need to know people’s opinion to take actions based on it, they would not be just informative polls (2) this group of people use Lemmy as their main interaction medium, no other platform is involved.
I’ve resorted to strawpoll in the past or in having comments with multiple options and relying on the most upvoted comment but these solutions have downsides.
Thank you for your work on Raccoon btw
Yeah really good app . Shame its not on the fdroid official repo tho .
Yes. I think it would be helpful.
I’d welcome polls implementation on Lemmy but maybe this is difficult with federation ? I wouldn’t mind instance only polls.
Polls are already available on Mastodon (with federation) without any issues. This could probably be implemented on Lemmy too, without any problems.
Is it a proper Activitypub feature or a Mastodon hack?
Let’s take a poll and find out!
Looks like it might be cool to have.
I’m kind of against this unless people’s responses are kept private for real (i.e. not stored on the server). Otherwise it’s just more kompromat piling up.
How do you store who has voted and what the results of the poll are without storing results on a server? Ultimately it’s just the same sort of data as who upvoted and downvoted what, right?
It’s better than nothing if you record that account X voted in poll Y without recording how they voted. Just keep count of the # of votes for each option. After the poll loses, delete the list of voters for that poll. It might be possible to do something fancier to get more privacy.
One way encryption, same way passwords are stored.
If you’re the Consort, that’s an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game 😛)
Sure? Maybe also small Wikis.
can filter out image posts please i fucking hate memes
You could just block the communities and instances…?
Their communities with a mix of good content and meme spam
Some clients let you do that
I have yet to find one. The domain filter trick used to work on Reddit because the images had a different domain name that they would be hosted on. That’s not true for Lemmy
So you hate 99% of Lemmy then. Maybe stop using it?
Lemmy is not 99% memes. I have most meme communities blocked and I never run out of posts on my feed
I do not want to see polls added unless it’s only moderators and admins who can post them. If Lemmy is anything like reddit (it is), the vast majority of them will be useless clutter…people posting polls as “content.”
It encourages clicking a button over leaving a reply. We’ll get a thousand “Do you think [thing] or [other thing]” posts with very little engagement.
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Benefit of
You mean ‘Benefit from’, here, right?
yeah… not my mother tongue sorry.
Open polls are one of the few good things about Facebook.
Why is Javascript on Twitter?
This wasn’t taken from Twitter.
That was a lame joke about the check mark. 😔
cralder@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Its a good idea, but how would that work with federation? There is already an issue with the number of upvotes on a post differing between instances. Would polls have the same problem or no?
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 months ago
It would work the exact same way, i.e. every instance would have its own idea of the results, depending on what instances are (de)federated with.
Almrond@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It would be really neat to see the differences between instances that take part in the polls, I think it would work fine.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Depends entirely on how it’s implemented. But almost certainly yes
Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Very good question, I have no idea how it could be implemented. I guess the question would have to be passed onto the developers of Lemmy. I’m sure they have already thought about it, but as you say probably difficult to implement due to federation.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That’d be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.