YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private
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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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Knowing they're visible on kbin made me realize that most Lemmy users probably weren't aware, as it's non-obvious.
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.
It's so weird when people do that!
Just why would someone even do this π I personally either upvote or leave no vote at all when replying... Did you tell them they've been busted?
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.
Yea, good call. I wonder if kbin makes them viewable because the activity pub protocol does not allow them to be easily hidden.
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
And I like it. Itβs pretty earnest :)
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.
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.
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.
Excuse my ignorance, still super new to Lemmy. What's kbin?
Spot on:
https://kbin.social/m/youshouldknow@lemmy.world/t/82174/YSK-You-can-view-upvote-and-downvote-information-through-kbin#entry-comment-349825
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?
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!
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
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
Not true.
Both Lemmy and KBin map the same activitypub activities to the same upvote and downvote actions.
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.
Kbin has normal upvote/downvotes since a recent update.
That's a pretty reasonable hypothesis. I wouldn't imagine the motivator was to deliberately create conflict.