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Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.dk 3 points 4 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.