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YSK: You can view upvote and downvote information through kbin (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/361524

If you are browsing through https://kbin.social/ or whatever just click on "more" then activity.

There you'll see info like boosts, reduces (downvotes), and favorites (upvotes?)

Works with all instances for lemmy or kbin material

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[–] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I couldn't have said it better myself. Voting secrecy is very important. There's a reason why your government ballot isn't posted on some public bulletin board in the town square for everyone to see. I see no reason why it should be any different for online community voting.

For me personally, I am somewhat okay with Lemmy's implementation because it isn't so public for the average user and is understandable given the requirements of federation (at least until we figure out a way to anonymize vote counts in aggregate), but kbin's implementation just crosses the line IMHO.

[–] Zebrazilla@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Here's an example of what I think we'll be seeing more of: A user getting called out and named for frequently downvoting: https://kbin.social/m/wholesome/t/80838/To-the-one-guy-who-keeps-downvoting-m-wholesome-threads

Don't think this is the last we'll see of this, and I think it definitely has the potential to impact peoples participation in the long run, with people self-censoring themselves out of fear of being called out for voting wrong.

[–] clb92@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

But vote secrecy is difficult to implement with federated systems like these when the votes need to be federated between instances.

People will always be able to get the "raw" ActivityPub data anyhow to see who voted what, unless there's a major rewrite of how voting works, I believe. I'm not an expert in ActivityPub/Fediverse, though...