Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
I value my privacy more than my exposure to astroturfing. Giving up privacy in exchange for more less astroturfing isn’t a sacrifice I’m willing to make but if you are, go for it I guess.
Sure sounds like a lot of victim blaming to me. If someone upvoted a post in their city’s regional instance but never commented, it’s insane to me that a) that vote should be publicly viewable and b) people would blame the user.
I say make them public. It was like that on Kbin and it never brought trouble.
Anecdotes are cool.
Way cooler than astroturfing.
I value my privacy more than my exposure to astroturfing. Giving up privacy in exchange for more less astroturfing isn’t a sacrifice I’m willing to make but if you are, go for it I guess.
If your privacy is at risk in a place like Lemmy, you might be giving up too much private information IMHO.
Sure sounds like a lot of victim blaming to me. If someone upvoted a post in their city’s regional instance but never commented, it’s insane to me that a) that vote should be publicly viewable and b) people would blame the user.
That’s a fair point, but I still think it’s a very specific case. I believe it would benefit way more than harm the fediverse in general.
Like others have said, maybe do it opt-in, so each instance can choose whether they want to have it or not.
Opt in would be far more of a reasonable option .
What is the benefit here in this case? Basically why do we care who upvotes or downvotes something that it needs to be exposed?
Obviously I don’t have all the answers, but from my point of view it would help against things like astroturfing or vote manipulation.