Voting in the threadiverse (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Snoopy@jlai.lu to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hi,

i want to explore the various way we can highlight content.

Currently, on the threadiverse, we use vote to show our approval, discontent...and we can couple it with a bot for moderation. Or hide post below a certain score...

Some instance completly removed downvote as Beehaw. Piefed is experimenting private vote. On other fediverse software, mastodon, iceshrimp, there is no downvote and we use emojis to express our feelings.

You also have website as https://slashdot.org/ where you can tell that comment was insightfull or a troll, or funny...

There is also also website that compare software or video as https://tournesol.app/

Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?

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[-] fdrc_lm 9 points 1 week ago

🖐️ I have a dumb question

Aren’t votes on Lemmy private?

[-] TheFool@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago

They really aren’t Here are yours :)

I think this is a huge problem but I also don’t think things are going to change

[-] fdrc_lm 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that’s concerning. However after being on the Fediverse for a while, I understand that the freedom from corporations comes in a trade-off with privacy, and even if I’m not tech savvy I’m convinced this isn’t going to change. Maybe there should more understanding about this, and we should put online only things we are totally ok with being publicly available and share private stuff only in specific places such as encrypted chats

[-] TheFool@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The thing is, what’s stopping Google or Meta from spinning up an instance just to profile you? They wouldn’t even have to embrace extend extinguish they could just quietly spin one up and start reading everything. I think the Votes should only be visible to the community mods/admins but that would require a change in how the whole system works and I don’t think it’s going to happen

[-] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They aren't shown to users, no, but because votes are federated, they're freely accessible to anyone willing to put in some effort. Set up a server and you'll get access to the data.