Is this a joke?

  • Nibbler
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    1 year ago

    I don’t mean this in a sort of “gotcha” way, but why shouldn’t those things be public on this sort of platform? That seems like the bare minimum for a community to prosper

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      1 year ago

      I don’t mind if they are or aren’t either way, but it doesn’t make sense to tear down discord for essentially the same thing if you’re ok with Lemmy doing it. Whether they should or shouldn’t is another question. Also, it’s possible for my upvotes and down votes to be collected but hidden much like it is on reddit.

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        1 year ago

        Also, it’s possible for my upvotes and down votes to be collected but hidden much like it is on reddit.

        That’s true for one single instance. But I’d think it’d be harder for your non home instances to track your votes without them being exposed in some way. Right?

        • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Nah, every instance knows who up/down voted any post, reddit knew this data too but now anyone can spin up an instance to get it.

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            1 year ago

            Which is kind of mandatory for how they’ve designed Lemmy. If you share upvotes between instances, then you’ve gotta provide sources. Otherwise it’s too easy for one instance to manipulate all the others.

            You could not share upvotes between instances, but that would really damage small instances. Imagine going to a small instance and instead of the Reddit front page you get the Reddit new page.

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        1 year ago

        People can see who down votes their comments? Or servers/instances have the ability to know?

        • Everyone can see votes. On the bottom of a comment or post beside boost is more, you hit more and a menu opens, you hit activity on that menu and you see all interactions with that comment or post with usernames attached.

          • Ech@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Fwiw, this isn’t a thing on Lemmy. Not that it’s not available given enough effort, but it’s not programmed to be immediately available to everyone.