Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

Rimu@piefed.social to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 805 points –
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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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Boosting a Lemmy post in Mastodon shows up as an upvote in Lemmy. So the two concepts seem to be coupled in the activitypub substructure. I don't see how upvotes would be secret then, as I don't think it's possible to boost something privately on Mastodon.

You are exactly right - the underlying protocol (ActivityPub) has no concept of private votes. Making them private would only hide them in Lemmy's UI, but still make them accessible to other users using other apps.