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PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it's interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not great, tbh. People just want to lurk, not potentially get shit on for what they're boosting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I agree it's an odd choice. I had someone I don't know reduce my post and all my comments about becoming a dad. It's been a hard choice to not go and reduce all of their stuff in return ¯\(ツ)/¯ which I guess is why is a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternatively, it's a good exercise in self-control and learning to ignore dumb petty things that don't matter. As I understand, there's something of a technical limitation; here due to the way the Fediverse works, that activity necessarily must be public in order to be federated. While Kbin could choose to simply not display the data, it would still be available if you or anyone else wanted to access it.

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

I'm still new to all this, but I read that kbin federates who is voting, and Lemmy federates only the total votes.

EDIT: So it looks like it is not true. Testing this is tricky due to overload issues, but upvoting myself from a Lemmy account does show an increase but confusingly lists the account under the 'Favourites' activity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's the case. I just checked a random post on lemmy.world, and I can see the two Lemmy users that upvoted a comment.

[–] WhoIsRich 1 points 1 year ago

Testing again.

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

Isn't that a pretty classic Problem In Chair Not In Code, though?

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

If you're lurking then why are you interacting? The two are mutually exclusive.

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

"Lurking" usually doesn't preclude voting, from my understanding of the term.

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

Lurking means reading without contributing. Perhaps voting could be encompassed in that on Reddit, but here on the Fediverse a vote is a public statement. It's akin to posting "This!"