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Why not just get rid of votes on lemmy altogether?
Considering the easiest solution is some kind of public/private key cryptography that’s anonymized, how much cpu time is really worth throwing at the problem of making votes private?
It's an option... I don't really agree with it, but it is an option. Beehaw has already removed the ability of their users to downvote and see downvotes. So my guess is that someone could start up an instance that just removes the ability to upvote and downvote.
But the vast majority of users joining Lemmy today are coming from Reddit and I'm sure that completely removing their ability to upvote/downvote will not be a popular option.
Yeah, I agree with you there. The whole point of the Reddit site and software was to iterate on a social media platform whose content is self replicating (not actually self replicating, just produced and sorted and distributed by entities who don’t live on the balance sheet).
Fundamentally though, wrestling with the impact and purpose of social media is more important than preserving an unbroken line of content pipelines. Lemmy was fine before the Reddit protests so it’s not like telling incoming users that they’ll have to figure out what’s cool instead of relying on a bunch of people they never met to tell them will kill the platform.