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Are kbin upvotes/downvotes public?
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Public. But on my instance they are private. And a lot more improvements.
More -> Activity shows who boosted.
Isn't that privacy more illusory than actual? You're not surfacing the web pages which show the votes, but the protocol is openly sharing that info and anybody can still see what your instance's users have voted on just by looking at them from a different instance. I'm not going to out anybody, but it was trivial for me to find that thread here on kbin.social and see exactly who upvoted it, including a kglitch.social user.
Yes.
But downvotes, the only really drama-causing aspect of this, are not federated so won't be visible from another instance.
Frankly i'd prefer all of it to be private, but there's merit to both sides.
re:drama-causing, i'm also removing downvotes from my instance in dev for the same reason. I do think some version of muting has value, though - but kinda feels like it should be a tool earned, similar to HackerNews (they have downvotes, but only after a certain amount of earned "karma").