Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

  • interdimensionalmemeEnglish
    383·
    2 years ago

    Yes, I thought that was implied. Voting is part of moderation. All moderation must be radically transparent. Your voting history is the weight of your credibility and reputation on Lemmy.

      • interdimensionalmeme
        4·
        2 years ago

        And they will also be needed to distinguish votes by spammers and bots

        All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based

        • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          This is something that we could leave up to the admins and their tools to figure out rather than making everyone’s voting history public.

          • interdimensionalmeme
            1·
            2 years ago

            But then you would have to take the admins word for it that the data is legit. This creates a window for data manipulation by making the data and a local algorithm dependent on someone else’s decision

        • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          2 years ago

          All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based

          Damn, that sounds awesome. I hadn’t envisioned that scenario but it makes a lot of sense.

    • hare_ware@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      It also discourages people from upvoting more controversial topics, for better or for worse.

      I just hope it doesn’t turn into Twitter’s culture of ruining people’s lives by showing they liked a sus tweet 5 years ago, LMAO.

        • hare_ware@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Isn’t that what upvotes are supposed to be for? Just not how people actually use them…

      • interdimensionalmemeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        My plan was just to assume a new identity every 6 months or so and never post identifiable information. I see how that would be a problem if someone where to use their real identity. In that case, they probably wouldn’t vote at all, that’s not great. Maybe have a separate anonymous account ? And only use your real account for making “statements” including your votes.