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I have zero skin in the game, so from a personal perspective I don't care either way. Everybody is going to find out that I upvote shitposts and people who respond to me—that's going to be the extent of my consequences if votes go public.
Philosophically I think transparency is better than obfuscation. Especially since a dedicated user can figure the info out right now, anyway.
no more half measures walter
My thoughts? My opinion don’t matter for shit but frankly idgaf either way. I dont care who sees what.
Looks like the response is split between "no" and "why aren't votes anonymous to begin with"
Afaict that's just how activitypub works, it's not designed to make anything anonymous. Votes are public to anything federates with the instance already, you just can't access them through the lemmy ui. But they're not anonymized in the activity stream.
The proposal is instead of federating each vote, each instance sends an anonomized vote count which is the total of their users. That and tokenizing users in vote objects. That and the piefed method: https://lemm.ee/post/40074176
Wait are those separate proposals? Removing individual votes vs tokenizing users in individual votes
The relying on instances to compile and anonomize votes is one proposal that would require a change in standards. The easy solution is giving every user their own "voting profile" which is a random username and handles all voting. This is what piefed uses and the admins are unable to see user votes, but can deanonomize users with enough effort.
The cognitive dissonance between the responses to this recommendation and the same people lambasting Twitter for removing this is wild
Voting is bad. One thing we should #take from stormfront is old Reddit just got this feature recently where when you scroll past a post it turns down the opacity a bit. Really helps to see what you've read and what is new
Guys if you want them to add public votes please make a GitHub account (I know I know) and give a thumbs up on the issue or a comment.
I'd like it to be an opt-in thing so my crushes don't notice me upbearing all their posts
make votes only visible on your own comments. I might elaborate further but likely wont.
I think that removing public likes from X was a good idea.