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?

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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
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      1 year 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