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Activities are public and easily viewable on kbin. It's been interesting. Seems mostly positive other than people harassing those who down-vote them demanding explanations.
Knowing they're visible on kbin made me realize that most Lemmy users probably weren't aware, as it's non-obvious.
Yeah, I had a good natured discussion with a Lemmy user on feddit.uk the other day where they were still inexplicably downvoting my responses each time, despite us both being polite and constructive.
It made me realise that a) they use the downvote button quite differently to how I use it and b) they probably didn't know that I, as a kbinaut, could literally see they were the one downvoting.
I started a discussion on feddit.de about good discussion practice citing Karl Poppers rules of discussion and the use of the down and upvote buttons.
I think discussion culture in the Fedivers is quite healthy at the moment.
It's so weird when people do that!
Yea, good call. I wonder if kbin makes them viewable because the activity pub protocol does not allow them to be easily hidden.
Seems to be Ernest's attitude about that sort of thing, he doesn't like to hide things from the average user that someone more technically inclined would still be able to access
And I like it. It’s pretty earnest :)
Excuse my ignorance, still super new to Lemmy. What's kbin?
Spot on:
https://kbin.social/m/youshouldknow@lemmy.world/t/82174/YSK-You-can-view-upvote-and-downvote-information-through-kbin#entry-comment-349825
Excuse my ignorance, still super new to Lemmy. What's kbin?
Kbin is another open source link aggregation program with a different developer that uses the same protocol as Lemmy (ActivityPub), so kbin and Lemmy instances can communicate with each other. If you see anyone with "@kbin.social" after their name then that's where they're from. You can check it out yourself here as well kbin.social
It's apparently because it's Twitter based and Twitter shows likes and such. Kbin doesn't really have a like upvote downvotes thing. It's like a favorite and a boost. It's weird
Not true.
Both Lemmy and KBin map the same activitypub activities to the same upvote and downvote actions.
One thing I really like is that it makes it easy to identify users to block. If there's a post stating that "Nazis are bad" and it has ten downvotes, it's very easy to use that to block future content from trolls and people I'm not interested in hearing from.
Yeah, and guess what? They can do that to you.
Effectively, every single person can use a bot that will automate the blocking of any user that ever downvotes them ever.
Like if I made a post that says I like Nazis, and then waited for the downvotes to pour in. Add every single one of those names to a block list, share that block list with all of my alts and all of my friends, and suddenly you have a whole army of Nazi sympathizers that are invisible to the users that would downvote them.
These hand waving excuses about votes being public are really lacking imagination. This is extremely abusable information, and cursory tools can will be put together to make abusing them simple.
I think there are some problems about voting being public. I don't think this is one of them.
I don't mind people blocking me, and if I don't appreciate the type of content people provide I'll block them liberally. It's not necessarily anything personal, I'm just cirating my experience.
Furthermore, I strive to be on instances where nazi sympathisers would be banned, and where instances tolerating them would be defederated. The only issue is identifying and weeding out troll accounts.
You wouldn’t know that your instance is infested with tankies and fascists. You can’t see their posts because you’re on the block list.
Depends on where it's posted in. Also this example is pretty low effort. I would downvote it too