[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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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...
  • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    If there’s any way to make votes more private between users, we should do it.

    I very much agree with your diversity sentiment, but this part is just not possible right now. The underlying protocol (ActivityPub) just has no mechanism for private votes.

    • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      3 months ago

      Yeah. I guess we shouldn’t expect that to change any time soon?

      If that’s the case, maybe public votes is the best way to go.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        As far as I know, there are no plans or proposals for private votes at the moment and most implementations don’t seem to mind that votes are public. So no, I don’t think ActivityPub will have any support for private votes in the foresseable future.