From the technical side anyone can spin up their own Lemmy instance and view all votes, but I’m curious at what the community’s perspective on how “private” that is. I think Mbin already shows upvoters? Piefed allows anonymous voting. I also know there are sites which show all voting history, but assuming those are fairly disliked.
My general questions to the community: - Do you expect your votes to be private, or just not shown in the UI? - Would per-voter votes showing up on another aggregator platform bother you, even though your instance already shares them with other servers?
For context I’m the dev doing some two way bridge interop between atproto + Threadiverse, in atproto the votes/likes are generally publicly accessible, you just look at the users repo through something like pdsls.dev, they’re readable and archivable by anyone. In my opinion this isn’t that big of a problem since it’s fairly hard to look at and discern (Ex all my votes: https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:lmdkqemqrqnfiix72pyjhfey/social.coves.feed.vote). Ultimately trying to figure out if there’s already a mutual understanding that they are public and we can just mirror them or whether they should stay hidden as an aggregate.
About 10 years ago I decided that the only way I could proceed forward in life is to automatically assume I’m being watched and listened to always. This has nothing to do with paranoia and everything to do with the nature of tech ownership and capitalism.
This is a very good assumption to make. Because it’s true.
I’m the same. And even if you don’t take the digital world into account, today we have devices everyone can buy for around 3 to 10 thousand dollars with wich can hear what you’re doing from 3 kilometers away (combined with a good analysis kit you can even know what someone a few hundred meters away is typing on their keyboard).
Completely public
zero private.
I assume there’s no privacy whatsoever, and I wouldn’t believe anyone who told me otherwise.
There’s zero faith involved in open source. It’s verifiable with your own eyes, thankfully.
I realize they aren’t private and don’t care.
I vote on such a small minority of things that those few things I do vote on, I have no problem with people knowing it was me.
Literally none I basically assumed that anything I do on the internet can be read by anyone at any time. I’m still a fucking freak because they’ll have to kill me to stop me from being freaky. If I die unexpectedly the government did it. Never forget that.
He died how he lived: being freaky.
Freaky died just the other night. Some say it was suicide.
Was already aware for a while of reactions being public for anyone with enough expertise to see.
I don’t worry about that. I have no expectation that up/downvotes be not tied to my username.
There are private things on the internet?
Not very.
Which is fine with me
Fully public
Better question? Do votes ultimately matter? Some instances show who voted, some don’t, some don’t even count downvotes. So in the end, who cares?
do it mang.
I downvote Nazi shit and upvote funny shit. I got nothing to hide.
In my opinion this isn’t that big of a problem since it’s fairly hard to look at and discern
You are like one LLM prompt away from a website that makes it fairly easy to look at and discern so that’s not really a valid argument
imho:
- public, just not shown in ui
- would bother me if shown near the comment/post, since that would change the meaning of the vote: on lemmy only the total is shown there, sometime I do things like upvoting a comment I don’t fully agree with because that “aggregate” is too low in my opinion (or the opposite of that), which make sense only if just the total is shown.
