MuddybulldogYSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private
MissingNoAt first I agreed with the general “whatever” sentiment. It has some important implications, however.
It discourages people from voting if they’re concerned about other people seeing their activity. This could result in a lower quality of scoring for posts.
chakan2It discourages people from voting if they’re concerned about other people seeing their activity. This could result in a lower quality of scoring for posts.
I strongly disagree with that. I think showing downvotes makes your votes more relevant. If something has 10k up votes and 10k down votes, it’s probably a decent post. If it just shows 10k up votes, or 0 net total, the score doesn’t reflect the nature of the post.
OmniGlitcherI agree with what you’re saying, but that’s not the point of this post. This post is about the fact that an invidual user’s vote history is semi-public.
i.e. if you were to vote my comment up or down, anyone who owns an instance would be able to see it was you who up/down voted it. Whilst I’m sure there are those who don’t care, I’d personally rather not have any rando who can be bothered to set up a Lemmy instance know what I’ve voted on.