I stumbled upon this issue on github:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3291
But I didn’t know or expect Kbin users can see what Lemmy users upvote or downvote their post. Is this indeed what Kbin users can do?
I stumbled upon this issue on github:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3291
But I didn’t know or expect Kbin users can see what Lemmy users upvote or downvote their post. Is this indeed what Kbin users can do?
are you saying that it’s weird that lemmy users can’t see the votes, or that kbin users can?
i’d agree that it’s weird that lemmy users can’t see votes, however i can see the argument:
people have said that their votes should be private, and that if votes can’t be private (let’s make that assumption for the moment because that’s the way the core communication of the network works) then at least it shouldn’t be trivial to get access to that information
that’s a valid position to take
the counter is that if the information is public, simply making it slightly more difficult to access only hurts the people who wouldn’t use that information for nefarious purposes anyway… and by hiding the information, you simply make people less aware that the information is actually public!
lemmy users tend to be unaware that votes are public information, whilst kbin users seem to have more of an understanding of that. i’d say that knowledge helps people act accordingly
there’s also the “let’s change the protocol so votes are truly private” discussion, which is also valid but a far bigger effort, and is also against some of the values of the fediverse (that everything is transparent)
Yeah, I agree this unwanted behavior of Lemmy. It’s a variation on ‘security by obscurity’. It’s ‘social security’ by obscurity. Except that it isn’t obscure at all.
I didn’t know Kbin users could see the upvotes, but I’ve just discovered that kbin users only see favorites. Just like on Mastodon.
Check out the Kbin page @[email protected] shared in another comment. You can see who upvoted your comment under ‘activity’. If you upvote my comment, my comment favorite count increases with one. And you can see you are one of the ‘upvoters’ under favorites.
If however you downvote my comment, one of the favorites appears to get removed. By you. Even if you didn’t upvote before. At least, that’s what I think happened when I tried this on another comment.