[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
  • PikaEnglish
    3•1 month ago

    So the API does disclose who upvotes and downvotes, however since the major front ends themselves don’t show to everyday users, it’s walled off to finding a frontend that is able to view them and to mod/admins of the instance.

    Currently it takes someone to be somewhat savvy to be able to do that, this proposal is making everything public period, which would remove that wall

    • FaridEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      Yes. And I think better make it obvious that votes aren’t private, instead of people wrongly assuming that they are.