this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@interdimensionalmeme @o_o Agreed! Your voting history will help others gauge how objective (or not) you are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And they will also be needed to distinguish votes by spammers and bots

All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based

Damn, that sounds awesome. I hadn't envisioned that scenario but it makes a lot of sense.

[–] QuadratureSurfer 2 points 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.