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A little tag if commenting user has up-voted a topic? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This could be some incentive for up-voting relevant topics. Maybe also a tag indicating a commenting user has joined the community they are posting in?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

I like the Reddit way of doing it where the user has pages which lists what they've upvoted and downvoted, but they can choose not to display it to other users in the settings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Is this information actually private in Lemmy? Since it is federated there will need to be some information exposed. If it is aggregated by server there may be some obfuscation but I don't think it is impossible to keep this information completely private.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Remote instances will see all votes (and the users who made them) in communities that they follow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected], are you able to answer this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] sure, there's no API that exposes your upvotes / downvotes, but I think it'd be fine to expose that for your own user. I'll open an issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I think you misunderstood the comment but it is answered here: https://lemmy.ml/post/69362/comment/61311

Apparently all votes are public. Maybe it would make sense to surface this in the UI then to make it obvious that this is the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Ah, federation sure, but that's a case where we shouldn't expose it outside of trusted instances, and certainly not in the api.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate for trusted instances? I can't find anything about those and I thought anyone could stand up their own Lemmy and connect to the fediverse. I didn't realize that you had to be approved to follow a community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

There is open, allow list, and block list federation.

https://github.com/lemmynet/lemmy/blob/main/config/config.hjson

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

I think that might be a good thing for moderators to see in order to determine if a user is systematically voting in some way that makes it likely that the account is a sockpuppet. But I don't think having that as a publicly available page is very helpful and might very well be counter-productive.