From the technical side anyone can spin up their own Lemmy instance and view all votes, but I'm curious at what the community's perspective on how "private" that is. I think Mbin already shows upvoters? Piefed allows anonymous voting. I also know there are sites which show all voting history, but assuming those are fairly disliked.

My general questions to the community: - Do you expect your votes to be private, or just not shown in the UI? - Would per-voter votes showing up on another aggregator platform bother you, even though your instance already shares them with other servers?

For context I'm the dev doing some two way bridge interop between atproto + Threadiverse, in atproto the votes/likes are generally publicly accessible, you just look at the users repo through something like pdsls.dev, they're readable and archivable by anyone. In my opinion this isn't that big of a problem since it's fairly hard to look at and discern (Ex all my votes: https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:lmdkqemqrqnfiix72pyjhfey/social.coves.feed.vote). Ultimately trying to figure out if there's already a mutual understanding that they are public and we can just mirror them or whether they should stay hidden as an aggregate.

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

confused how anyone could think anything otherwise

Because you can't see them by default. Just because there are lots of techies on here doesn't mean everyone thinks about how it all works.

I think it's much better to make it very obvious that votes are public so new users don't accidentally think they're anonymous.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guarantee you multiple individuals be they personal or corporate have spun up their own Lemmy instances and are scraping the shit out of what is here.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly, so it's important for everyone to know that their every action is very public

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you want privacy you shouldn't be using a computer. Full stop.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I get your point but it's so reductive that it's kind of unhelpful. Sure if the CIA are coming after you then you are pretty fucked, but there are so many tiny things that the casual user can do to make massive improvements, and saying that none of it matters if they even use a computer means they won't bother even trying.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

I never said don't care about it. But people need to realize that if they don't want someone to know something the first thing is don't fucking say it.

There is so much The Internet does not know about me because I don't post it ever. It's like people don't understand that.