This could be some incentive for up-voting relevant topics. Maybe also a tag indicating a commenting user has joined the community they are posting in?
This could be some incentive for up-voting relevant topics. Maybe also a tag indicating a commenting user has joined the community they are posting in?
I like the Reddit way of doing it where the user has pages which lists what they’ve upvoted and downvoted, but they can choose not to display it to other users in the settings.
I think that might be a good thing for moderators to see in order to determine if a user is systematically voting in some way that makes it likely that the account is a sockpuppet. But I don’t think having that as a publicly available page is very helpful and might very well be counter-productive.
Is this information actually private in Lemmy? Since it is federated there will need to be some information exposed. If it is aggregated by server there may be some obfuscation but I don’t think it is impossible to keep this information completely private.
Remote instances will see all votes (and the users who made them) in communities that they follow.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml, are you able to answer this?
@kevincox@lemmy.ml sure, there’s no API that exposes your upvotes / downvotes, but I think it’d be fine to expose that for your own user. I’ll open an issue.
I think you misunderstood the comment but it is answered here: https://lemmy.ml/post/69362/comment/61311
Apparently all votes are public. Maybe it would make sense to surface this in the UI then to make it obvious that this is the case.
Ah, federation sure, but that’s a case where we shouldn’t expose it outside of trusted instances, and certainly not in the api.
Can you elaborate for trusted instances? I can’t find anything about those and I thought anyone could stand up their own Lemmy and connect to the fediverse. I didn’t realize that you had to be approved to follow a community.
There is open, allow list, and block list federation.
https://github.com/lemmynet/lemmy/blob/main/config/config.hjson