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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

In my opinion this setting should be set by the use. Whether they want their votes to be shown to public. If they deny Lemmy would just show "upvoted by anon" or something.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 10 months ago

That is not possible. The underlying protocol, ActivityPub does not have a concept of private votes. This is not up to Lemmy to decide.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de -1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I think the ActivityPub standard doesn't have a concept of votes at all. They're not defined in the first place.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 10 months ago

No it definitely does, it has Likes and Dislikes. Lemmy uses those for votes.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well, there definitely aren't any dislikes. But you're right with the "Like Activity". I missed that, but it's in the standard. It doesn't really define what to do with it, though. The standard has a "likes" and a "shares" collection. It stops there. The rest of our voting system isn't part of the ActivityPub standard. (And that's also why i missed the likes, because I searched for the word "vote".)

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 8 points 10 months ago

No, as I said, there are Likes and Dislikes. You can see the Dislike object in the standard here. ActivityPub is composed of various different standards that all come together to form a federation system.

Likes are defined as being added to the Liked collection, which is essentially votes. It's all just what you call a vote or a like, it's just semantics. It is definitely part of the standard.