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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.

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[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Yes by default, but there should be an option to make them public

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Make the author of the comment/post see who voted for them.

[-] PopShark@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

As I said in another comment in this post - I believe seeing who upvoted or downvoted a post aids in identifying rabid downvoters and bots, though I personally use mobile Lemmy apps and am unable to access that data.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be

[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I will always downvote ai shit. Brigade 100%. I'm fact this reminds me I need to get through all the ai subs and downvote everything again.

[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

We need to reveal downvotes so we can identify the ai lovers.

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