Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
Your votes already aren't private, they're simply not easily accessible (by the average user). I won't get into the technical details but the short version is that every instance owner who is federated with your instance already knows how you've voted. Someone could make a website right now that collects votes and shows how someone has voted or who upvoted/downvoted a post or comment. It's already public information.
It would be very cool to have something like this from a data analytics perspective. Similar tools have existed for other platforms before.