Currently, almost anyone in the Fediverse can see Lemmys votes. Lemmy admins can see votes, as well as mods. Only regular Lemmy users can’t. Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?
There is a discussion going on right now considering “making the Lemmy votes public” but I think that premisse is just wrong. The votes are public already, they’re just hidden from Lemmy users. Anyone from a kbin/mbin/fedia instance can check out the votes if they are so inclined.
The users right now may fall into a false sense of privacy when voting because the votes are hidden from Lemmy users. If you want to vote something and not show up on the vote list, please create another account to support that type of content and don’t tell anyone.
Other posts have already posted it better than I could, but my tl;dr is: one of the good things about Lemmy compared to the “competition” is that votes are public – or at least the fact that someone voted is.
I wouldn’t mind restricting access to how a user voted, in particular if in the future something like multi-choice upvotes becomes a thing, or even something I’d love to see as is dual-voting (“I downvoted because I don’t like it but I upvoted it because you are absolutely right about it”, this is absolutely different than not voting at all if the who is voting is being tracked).
But on a fundamental level, in the least instance admins have to be able to know who votes for our version of the system to even work compared to the competition.
This is the most interesting take i have seen on the matter. it’s not a score out of five, why shouldn’t you up and down vote the same post?
you make an objectionable but very interesting point?
you are essentially right but you are belligerent and can’t spell?
upvote and downvote.