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.

  • @laverabeEnglish
    2•24 days ago

    someone commented on github (I think it was Desallines) that the vote viewing feature has been available since 0.19.4 . Lemmy world is still on 0.19.3 .

    • @[email protected]English
      1•23 days ago

      Being able to see the moderation history linked directly to a post was added then - but I don’t see vote viewing nor recall hearing about it, which would have been a huge deal.

      • @laverabeEnglish
        1•23 days ago

        Nothing4You commented Aug 14, 2024 •

        mods can already see votes in communities they moderate since 0.19.4, so this would be reducing what is visible today:

        and

        Dessalines commented 5 days ago

        I’d like to clarify that mods should only be able to see votes for the communities they mod only.

        Admins can see all votes.

        I dunno, we’re on 0.19.3 so I don’t see it but I guess it’s there.

        https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967#issuecomment-2289596923

        • @[email protected]English
          2•23 days ago

          Ah, mods only, and then only for their own communities - well, still, that’s something (though I’d prefer prefer it opened up for everyone). Thanks for the link.