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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 3 months ago

Votes are public in the underlying protocol - mbin users and lemmy admins can see votes. They are not anonymous. This is only about whether votes should be displayed in Lemmy.

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yes I know, I said "should".

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 0 points 3 months ago

That would require a major change in the underlying protocol, and it could enable easy vote manipulation since there is no way for admins to watch out for malicious voting patterns.

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

they are already talking about major changes. welcome to the conversasion

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 0 points 3 months ago

This is not the conversation about the underlying protocol, which is ActivityPub. This discussion is merely within Lemmy. Lemmy does not have its own protocol, it uses the ActivityPub protocol. ActivityPub has no support currently for private votes. Lemmy's GitHub repository is not the place to suggest ActivityPub changes.