Currently, almost anyone in the Fediverse can see Lemmys votes. Lemmy admins can see votes, as well as mods. Only regular Lemmy users can't. Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?

There is a discussion going on right now considering "making the Lemmy votes public" but I think that premisse is just wrong. The votes are public already, they're just hidden from Lemmy users. Anyone from a kbin/mbin/fedia instance can check out the votes if they are so inclined.

The users right now may fall into a false sense of privacy when voting because the votes are hidden from Lemmy users. If you want to vote something and not show up on the vote list, please create another account to support that type of content and don't tell anyone.

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[–] PopShark@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

As I said in another comment in this post - I believe seeing who upvoted or downvoted a post aids in identifying rabid downvoters and bots, though I personally use mobile Lemmy apps and am unable to access that data.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Yes by default, but there should be an option to make them public

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At least NOW I can find out exactly who can call me out for saying something stupid, and thank that person for providing me with valuable information and knowledge.

Downvotes are actually kinda useful, even I benefit from them.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Eh, I don't personally care.

But it could lead to nastiness as lemmy expands. If enough people go to the trouble of looking it up, you get some of them being assholes because people are prone to being assholes. That leads to drama. Drama leads to nastiness and worse things sometimes.

If that's going to be part of how lemmy works, so be it, I'm way too old to skip using a block list for assholes. But it might bite federated services in the ass, so it probably should be on the list to get implemented.

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