Hello World!

We’ve made some changes today, and we’d like to announce that our Code of Conduct is no longer in effect. We now have a new Terms of Service, in effect starting from today(October 19, 2023).

The “LAST REVISION DATE:” on the page also signifies when the page was last edited, and it is updated automatically. Details of specific edits may be viewed by following the “Page History” reference at the bottom of the page. All significant edits will also be announced to our users.

The new Terms of Service can be found at https://legal.lemmy.world/

In this post our community mods and users may express their questions, concerns, requests and issues regarding the Terms of Service, and content moderation in Lemmy.World. We hope to discuss and inform constructively and in good faith.

  • m-p{3}
    22•1 year ago

    Votes are public on Lemmy, in the sense that if you have admin access to an instance that is federated you will be able to find who upvoted which posts/comments in the database.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
      16•1 year ago

      That should really be changed so that you can only see the cumulative votes from any given instance and only a user’s specific instance will have records of their individual upvotes and downvotes.

      • @[email protected]
        13•1 year ago

        That would make pushing posts to the top via botting way too easy, and far harder to detect. Federation is intentionally set up so that instances do not trust each other.

        • @jarfil
          1•1 year ago

          IIRC Kbin recently removed the ability to show who faved/unfavved a post for Lemmy instances.

          Edit: guess they did not 🤦

            • @jarfil
              3•1 year ago

              I swear there was discussion about hiding faves coming from lemmy… guess they decided not to. At least you can still follow people and see who else is following them… 🤦

      • m-p{3}
        8•1 year ago

        It’s pretty easy to spin up a temporary instance in a VM.