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Upvotes/Downvotes and boosts being visible on posts. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by mihnt@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I don't mean the actual numbers. I mean being able to see who has actually upvoted, downvoted, and boosted a post.

I've already received one message from a user after downvoting their post because I felt the content was a little on the fence. This should not be a thing. I should be able to vote on posts without worrying about someone messaging me because they have a problem with how I voted.

In my opinion, this is a bit lacking for the safety and security of members here. (Or people who just want to lurk for that matter.)

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[–] farllen@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also don't like votes being public, but I understand that the Fediverse just isn't built for that kind of privacy. It definitely makes me more hesitant to engage though. I can imagine that examining a user's voting patterns could reveal a lot of potentially sensitive information about them, especially if the user wasn't aware votes are public. Sometimes I see posts that are very relevant to something real-life or local that's going on with me, but I wouldn't want any random user to make the connection, so I just don't engage.

[–] cjerrington@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t think it’s a matter of “the fediverse isn’t built for that kind of privacy”. The fediverse does have privacy post options all built into the platform you’re using. Mastodon allows private posts, only those who follow you. Kbin is a mashup of Reddit style threads and microblog timeline posts.

Kbin was developed to show upvotes and boosts as those are synonymous to other platforms like mastodon as favorites and boosts.

The lemmy platform is more “private” that on lemmy posts you don’t see this as much. With federation and interacting similarly between ecosystems you start seeing the minor differences.

I do think that changes as possible and that is what makes the open source of the platforms we’re using to be important and requires community input for improvements and suggestions as a whole.