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"Your downvote was reported."
(lemmy.world)
I know, public votes, that's how Lemmy and the Fediverse work.
It bothers me a little though.
edit: this post is gaining traction, I censored the user's name as it's unimportant and better to avoid possible harassment
That's a weird change of perspective there. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
To be clear, yes, all social media with likes/votes has information about the likes/votes. That's all likes/votes is.
The question is whether you surface that information to users. For a system like ActivityPub there are some hard limiters to how much you can keep that info hidden or build features around withholding information from users at all because the entire thing is built on the notion that anybody can be hosting an instance.
My point is that I'm not going to treat it differently or have different expectations of it just because it works in a different way. And if anything, I'd have some additional privacy concerns for a system like than I would for a less open system.
So from there I'm not sure what your argument is. Are you saying that you disagree that Fedi has the same expectations for privacy and usability than other social networks? That they have the same expectations but get there some other way? I'm not trying to put words in your mouth here, I'm trying to understand what you're saying.
Oh I think I see the misunderstanding, thanks for your answer!
I had no specific technology or even "social media in my mind at all when writing my first post. Instead I tried to convey my personal preference on the scale "absolute transparency" to "absolute privacy" for the specific case of "seeing who votes in which direction from user about users".
I completely agree with your statement "don't treat it differently because of underlying tech decisions".
For me the answer to the privacy question depends on the specific use case (and who provides/ controls it).
And to answer your question: I only try to describe "my" wishes, not how I think fedi developers see the situation.