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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

github.com [Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy

Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...

[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy

Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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  • Votes are already public? If they weren't, federation of votes wouldn't be possible.

    • I think the change would make it accessible to non-admin users

    • hypothetically, I suppose it could alternately be done by instances just federating the number of votes from their instance and only storing who voted what internally. Though then you might get issues with very easy vote manipulation if a server just says a lot of people voted a certain way without needing to make accounts to "justify" the fake votes.

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