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Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)...

What you see via the UI isn't "all that exists". Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see "under the hood". Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won't normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

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[–] czech@no.faux.moe 163 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Activities are public and easily viewable on kbin. It's been interesting. Seems mostly positive other than people harassing those who down-vote them demanding explanations.

[–] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 130 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Knowing they're visible on kbin made me realize that most Lemmy users probably weren't aware, as it's non-obvious.

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I had a good natured discussion with a Lemmy user on feddit.uk the other day where they were still inexplicably downvoting my responses each time, despite us both being polite and constructive.

It made me realise that a) they use the downvote button quite differently to how I use it and b) they probably didn't know that I, as a kbinaut, could literally see they were the one downvoting.

[–] livus@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

It's so weird when people do that!

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Just why would someone even do this 😆 I personally either upvote or leave no vote at all when replying... Did you tell them they've been busted?

[–] WhiteHotaru@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I started a discussion on feddit.de about good discussion practice citing Karl Poppers rules of discussion and the use of the down and upvote buttons.

I think discussion culture in the Fedivers is quite healthy at the moment.

[–] czech@no.faux.moe 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yea, good call. I wonder if kbin makes them viewable because the activity pub protocol does not allow them to be easily hidden.

[–] PixelPassport@lemmy.myserv.one 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seems to be Ernest's attitude about that sort of thing, he doesn't like to hide things from the average user that someone more technically inclined would still be able to access

[–] fearout@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I like it. It’s pretty earnest :)

[–] PixelPassport@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I think it's great! I was on kbin originally but I'm a sucker for a nice app UI. I'll definitely be using it more once the apps are here.

I also can't find my lemm.ee community through kbin and I think it's some kind of federation issue, I'm sure it will get fixed.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin and Lemmy are having huge federation issues at the moment, with stuff from Lemmy commonly having a multiple hour delay before showing on Kbin and sometimes it doesn't show up at all. It might be a bug so we'll see how it works when the next Lemmy version comes out.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Let's be fair, lemmy instances are having the same issues federating, especially getting posts from the big instances. I presume it's a server load thing.

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PixelPassport@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I was thinking of! I'm still learning how to find things on the fediverse, did you use one of the search engines?

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

If you figure out a good way let me know! I knew I'd seen this post but to find it again ... well, I used Google to find a discussion on codeburg, and that had a link back to kbin!

[–] its_y@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excuse my ignorance, still super new to Lemmy. What's kbin?

Kbin is another open source link aggregation program with a different developer that uses the same protocol as Lemmy (ActivityPub), so kbin and Lemmy instances can communicate with each other. If you see anyone with "@kbin.social" after their name then that's where they're from. You can check it out yourself here as well kbin.social

[–] its_y@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Excuse my ignorance, still super new to Lemmy. What's kbin?

[–] XanXic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's apparently because it's Twitter based and Twitter shows likes and such. Kbin doesn't really have a like upvote downvotes thing. It's like a favorite and a boost. It's weird

[–] VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not true.

Both Lemmy and KBin map the same activitypub activities to the same upvote and downvote actions.

[–] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Currently yes, but before they started federating they didn't. That's why Kbin has both Boost (retweet), and the Favourite (like) is the "upvote", which end up here https://kbin.social/fav - and until very recently, those didn't increase your reputation.

Kbin is (was) less like Reddit and more like Twitter with downvotes.

[–] czech@no.faux.moe 4 points 1 year ago

Kbin has normal upvote/downvotes since a recent update.

[–] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 5 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty reasonable hypothesis. I wouldn't imagine the motivator was to deliberately create conflict.

[–] sab@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One thing I really like is that it makes it easy to identify users to block. If there's a post stating that "Nazis are bad" and it has ten downvotes, it's very easy to use that to block future content from trolls and people I'm not interested in hearing from.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, and guess what? They can do that to you.

Effectively, every single person can use a bot that will automate the blocking of any user that ever downvotes them ever.

Like if I made a post that says I like Nazis, and then waited for the downvotes to pour in. Add every single one of those names to a block list, share that block list with all of my alts and all of my friends, and suddenly you have a whole army of Nazi sympathizers that are invisible to the users that would downvote them.

These hand waving excuses about votes being public are really lacking imagination. This is extremely abusable information, and cursory tools can will be put together to make abusing them simple.

[–] sab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there are some problems about voting being public. I don't think this is one of them.

I don't mind people blocking me, and if I don't appreciate the type of content people provide I'll block them liberally. It's not necessarily anything personal, I'm just cirating my experience.

Furthermore, I strive to be on instances where nazi sympathisers would be banned, and where instances tolerating them would be defederated. The only issue is identifying and weeding out troll accounts.

[–] sauerkraus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You wouldn’t know that your instance is infested with tankies and fascists. You can’t see their posts because you’re on the block list.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on where it's posted in. Also this example is pretty low effort. I would downvote it too

[–] lemmy_see@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago