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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] blame@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the reality is people will just vote less and that's fine.

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

RIP "food for thought" upvotes

if my upvote is perceived as a public co-sign, it's gonna be a lot less common

[–] blame@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Personally I don't see an issue with that. Back in the old days most posts didn't have likes.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Yup and that's why I don't upvote/down vote anything...I never developed the habit on old forums. Honestly wish we could go back to the old internet before likes. Too many people addicted to getting dopamine hits of digital approval.