Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

  • @[email protected]
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    332 years ago

    Yes, I thought that was implied. Voting is part of moderation. All moderation must be radically transparent. Your voting history is the weight of your credibility and reputation on Lemmy.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      It also discourages people from upvoting more controversial topics, for better or for worse.

      I just hope it doesn’t turn into Twitter’s culture of ruining people’s lives by showing they liked a sus tweet 5 years ago, LMAO.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        It would be nice if we could upvote interesting posts rather that posts that we agree with.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Isn’t that what upvotes are supposed to be for? Just not how people actually use them…

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        My plan was just to assume a new identity every 6 months or so and never post identifiable information. I see how that would be a problem if someone where to use their real identity. In that case, they probably wouldn’t vote at all, that’s not great. Maybe have a separate anonymous account ? And only use your real account for making “statements” including your votes.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        And they will also be needed to distinguish votes by spammers and bots

        All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based

          Damn, that sounds awesome. I hadn’t envisioned that scenario but it makes a lot of sense.

        • @QuadratureSurfer
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          22 years ago

          This is something that we could leave up to the admins and their tools to figure out rather than making everyone’s voting history public.