Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous
Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.
Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?
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Yes, I thought that was implied. Voting is part of moderation. All moderation must be radically transparent. Your voting history is the weight of your credibility and reputation on Lemmy.
@interdimensionalmeme @o_o Agreed! Your voting history will help others gauge how objective (or not) you are.
And they will also be needed to distinguish votes by spammers and bots
All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based
This is something that we could leave up to the admins and their tools to figure out rather than making everyone's voting history public.
Damn, that sounds awesome. I hadn't envisioned that scenario but it makes a lot of sense.
It also discourages people from upvoting more controversial topics, for better or for worse.
I just hope it doesn't turn into Twitter's culture of ruining people's lives by showing they liked a sus tweet 5 years ago, LMAO.
It would be nice if we could upvote interesting posts rather that posts that we agree with.
Isn't that what upvotes are supposed to be for? Just not how people actually use them...
My plan was just to assume a new identity every 6 months or so and never post identifiable information. I see how that would be a problem if someone where to use their real identity. In that case, they probably wouldn't vote at all, that's not great. Maybe have a separate anonymous account ? And only use your real account for making "statements" including your votes.