PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone.
zeste@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 156 points – If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it's interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.
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It's not great, tbh. People just want to lurk, not potentially get shit on for what they're boosting.
I agree it's an odd choice. I had someone I don't know reduce my post and all my comments about becoming a dad. It's been a hard choice to not go and reduce all of their stuff in return ¯\(ツ)/¯ which I guess is why is a bad idea.
Alternatively, it's a good exercise in self-control and learning to ignore dumb petty things that don't matter. As I understand, there's something of a technical limitation; here due to the way the Fediverse works, that activity necessarily must be public in order to be federated. While Kbin could choose to simply not display the data, it would still be available if you or anyone else wanted to access it.
I'm still new to all this, but I read this was a difference between having an account on kbin vs lemmy, in that kbin federates who is voting, and lemmy federates only the total votes.
I don't think that's the case. I just checked a random post on lemmy.world, and I can see the two Lemmy users that upvoted a comment.
If you're lurking then why are you interacting? The two are mutually exclusive.
"Lurking" usually doesn't preclude voting, from my understanding of the term.
Lurking means reading without contributing. Perhaps voting could be encompassed in that on Reddit, but here on the Fediverse a vote is a public statement. It's akin to posting "This!"