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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It would be very cool to have something like this from a data analytics perspective. Similar tools have existed for other platforms before.