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Lemmy devs are looking to make votes public. Thoughts? (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I really wanted to post this on !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net but I'm not trans myself and I didn't want to take up their space.

Basically, the devs of Lemmy are looking to make upvotes public to everyone. Right now, I believe voter identities are known to server admins and mods.

I don't have a strong opinion on this myself, either for or against, as I write this comment, but I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing, frankly as a cishet dude.

But also... I've kinda lost trust in Nutomic making decisions about the software that won't make things worse for trans people since his comments on the Olympics were made public. Dessalines has (so far) at least tolerated Nutomic's transphobia despite whatever prior rhetoric. Frankly, I am suspicious that trans people don't matter to the Lemmy dev team...to be charitable...so I'd really like to hear your thoughts.

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[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago (20 children)

I'm going to be real with you. I've been able to see all votes on lemmy publicly for years. You should just make them public, because I've been scraping you and collecting statistics on how much you use bots.

Just make them public or I'm the only one who can do this. Your choice. Being helpful for fun here.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd always heard that Lemmy votes were public from the very beginning. This is the first I've heard that they're "supposed to be" private.

[–] I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

They are. Just because you didn't implement federation properly doesn't mean it's unavailable.

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