- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lm.korako.me
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lm.korako.me
Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
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I support this.
Me too.
Do you think it’s a reaction to Twitter (X) making likes private?
I wonder if they’re aware, actually. From the linked issue:
Also noteworthy is that reddit and lemmy are unique in keeping vote privacy: mastodon, twitter, and most other platforms expose them.
What voting system on Twitter is he talking about?
Baked in visibility of votes and blocking that only works one way makes Lemmy (and anything based on ActivityPub) less functional from an end user standpoint. Wish I knew a decent, somewhat popular alternative that implemented these features
They simply want to police it better to suit their agenda
I thought they were already???
Like how/why wouldn’t they be public? Even if the data isn’t readily accessible via a gui it’s gotta be somewhere so that federation works. Unless you’ve been thirsty in your main it shouldn’t be a problem?
Am I missing something?
Showing upvoters and removing downvotes completely!!
People downvote totally harmless posts and comments, just because they have a different opinion.
This useless and contraproductive negativity is the reason why YouTube removed downvotes and many other platforms never offered such a feature.
It matters very little to me if votes are made public. It’s not even a top 20 reason I’m a Lemmy user.
Edited for clarity. I should have tea before I post…
I can’t read Chinese, so I’m not sure what good seeing their names would be. A downvote is a downvote.
If a website could be sure none of their users are malicious/bots and all of the users are perfectly rational and virtuous then public or private voting wouldn’t matter either way. That being nearly impossible, why not a reputation based system like Stack Exchange? Only when an account meets certain requirements they can vote.
To boot, on the website tweakers.net one can actually vote -1, …, +3.
- +3: “Spotlight comments are of such high quality and substantive value that they clearly stand out above the rest”
- +2: “Informative and interesting comments that are a useful addition to the discussion in an on-topic thread or the information in the article”
- +1: “Nice on-topic responses with knowledge that is common knowledge”
- +0: “Comments that do not contain a relevant contribution, but are posted with good intentions”
- -1: “Flamebaits, trolls, misplaced jokes, unnecessarily hurtful comments and other comments that violate our terms and conditions or house rules”
arent they already though?
Hard yes from me, thank you.
This would be a catastrophic mistake. Please don’t.
“That dude downvoted a cute cat pic, get 'im!”
No, as it would create a lot of excuses for targeted harrassment and just increase toxicity
Hard no. I’ll move on like I did a year ago from Reddit, and I was on that site for 14 years.
Just from a political/nation-state viewpoint, it would needlessly expose information to make it easier for countries and political parties to keep some kind of “social score” and decide when to do something to you. China already does this kind of stuff.
We need to make it easier for everyone/anyone to do this? Think about all of the super-divisive issues at hand. People can already get a sense of your views from your responses, and that should be it.
Please No
