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Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts

I thought that reactions to posts and comments are anonymous and now I don't really know what to feel about Lemmy any more.

In this case I had downvoted a poster because of its design, but was confronted publicly for being racist because the person assumed that I downvoted the message on the poster

EDIT: changed the title from "How" to "Why" because it broke rule nr 5 about it being a support question

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[–] 21 points 9 months ago* (12 children)

Depends on the instance, mine is an mbin instance but the upvotes and downvotes are hidden.

I remember coming across a site where you could put in a Fediverse URL and it would tell you who had upvoted and downvoted it, presumably it had an instance in the background that was tracking all that.

Edit: lemvotes.org, linked below by another comment.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes, the information is sent to your instance, and then is being censored by your instance. It's personal choice for the instance and it's support. But your instance must either be commonly supporting you not seeing it, or dictating you aren't seeing it.

    Kind of like the championship football game played in the U.S. today before the Superbowl, where Fox edited out access to seeing people paying tribute to the man murdered by ice.

    Sometimes it's good to have information, sometimes people think it is not

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I would like to see the ratio of up/down, because that's IMO much more informative, if you allow votes at all. Personally I think votes just triggers some dopamine crap and is totally useless most of the times (exceptions are serious places where responsible people downvote wrong information for example)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I'm also on fedia and I can see who upvoted and boosted a comment / thread / post.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Can't see who downvoted, though. I've actually considered switching instances over this since that's the most important thing to "be serious" with, it'd be nice if people were more judicious with their downvotes and having them be an obvious public thing might make people think twice about that. But the whole upvote/downvote thing in general just seems like a broken concept to me a this point and I don't care all that much about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    I am on an instance without downvotes and I really don't miss it. I think it took me about a week for the muscle memory of downloading stupid comments to fade.

    If something is truly outrageous, I take it as a sign to just block the author. And if something is against the rules, I'll report it.

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