[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    I accept if a dozen people can see my votes.

    That’s not what you’re saying.

    Ultimately I’m not invested in this decision. If the instance wants to watch people vote then people stop voting truly or at all.

    • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.devEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      Except, if you’re using anything other than Lemmy at this point that information is already about. The Likes/Dislikes are considered public information by the protocol. Lemmy devs probably just didn’t get around to building out the UI for that before the Reddit APIcolypse.

      • nutomicAEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Lemmy actually marks votes as private for federation, but it seems that kbin/mbin ignore that.

        • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.devEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Ahh, didn’t even know there was a flag for that. I don’t suppose you could link to the relevant w3c or FEP for it?

            • Adam@doomscroll.n8e.devEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              How about you assume less? I spent 40+ minutes looking for this here, here, here and here and I’m already fairly familiar having done work on two other ActivityPub based projects.

              In addition public-addressing (or the lack of use thereof) in no way claims to achieve what you’ve stated - which is probably why it’s not the answer to my query.

              • nutomicAEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                Right the standard is even more vague than I remember. Unfortunately it’s the only thing we have.