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...
Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
Your votes already aren’t private, they’re simply not easily accessible (by the average user). I won’t get into the technical details but the short version is that every instance owner who is federated with your instance already knows how you’ve voted. Someone could make a website right now that collects votes and shows how someone has voted or who upvoted/downvoted a post or comment. It’s already public information.
You need to explain why because either they’re misunderstanding something or the two of you are using different definitions of private. In both scenarios asserting that something isn’t private won’t do any good.
Voting on lemmy is not private because anyone who wants to find out. Can. Be it moderators, adminis, or users on federated sites that simply show it for everyone.
If I can’t vote privately then I don’t vote.
They should put the rest of the nails in this coffin. Go full clique.
Then you should not vote on the fediverse at all, since votes have been public since the beginning. The Lemmy UI just doesn’t let you see the votes.
Your votes already aren’t private, they’re simply not easily accessible (by the average user). I won’t get into the technical details but the short version is that every instance owner who is federated with your instance already knows how you’ve voted. Someone could make a website right now that collects votes and shows how someone has voted or who upvoted/downvoted a post or comment. It’s already public information.
It would be very cool to have something like this from a data analytics perspective. Similar tools have existed for other platforms before.
You don’t. You never have. Voting already is not private
You need to explain why because either they’re misunderstanding something or the two of you are using different definitions of private. In both scenarios asserting that something isn’t private won’t do any good.
As you wish, and probably a good idea;
Voting on lemmy is not private because anyone who wants to find out. Can. Be it moderators, adminis, or users on federated sites that simply show it for everyone.