If I understand correctly, Kbin users can see what Lemmy users upvote or downvote their post. Is that correct?
If I understand correctly, Kbin users can see what Lemmy users upvote or downvote their post. Is that correct?
I stumbled upon this issue on github:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3291
But I didn't know or expect Kbin users can see what Lemmy users upvote or downvote their post. Is this indeed what Kbin users can do?
Every instance of lemmy and every server that speaks the same protocol knows who up/down voted any post. Your votes are public information.
Kinda weird that this isnt sent to the server and only server. Ig it keeps them honest, but if they really wanted to mess with the numbers, bot accounts do exist
Every instance of lemmy and every server that speaks the same protocol knows who up/down voted any post. Your votes are public information.
Right but there's casually available information and some that requires a little more effort
Yes this is something that Kbin users can do (by selecting More > Activity on a post) and I believe Lemmy users can do this too but not with the native inrerface.
Kbin doesn't federate downvotes, so it only knows half of that, and can't display what it doesn't know.
So, are Kbin votes not public?
Kbin let's you see it all, on a thread-by-thread/comment-by-comment basis. For example I'll (for a moment) downvote your comment. If I check it's activity, this is what I see. https://imgur.com/a/uTgEuUt
Favourites is upvotes, reduces are downvotes, boosts are the twitter/mastodon 'retweet' equivalent. Doesn't matter what instance the comment is on, kbin, lemmy, we can see them for posts and comments. Solely on the thread. I can't go to your profile and see a history of what and who you downvote, but if you downvoted/upvoted me right now for example, I can 100% tell who you are and which you did.
Hmm, the imgur link doesn't seem to be loading for me but I get what you're saying I think. That's pretty cool, I'll have to check out Kbin some more.
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