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I have zero skin in the game, so from a personal perspective I don't care either way. Everybody is going to find out that I upvote shitposts and people who respond to me—that's going to be the extent of my consequences if votes go public.
Philosophically I think transparency is better than obfuscation. Especially since a dedicated user can figure the info out right now, anyway.
Are the admins/mods willing to be extra trigger happy with bans if/when this is used to harass people?
Or will this just chase lots more users to hexbear? 
no more half measures walter
Looks like the response is split between "no" and "why aren't votes anonymous to begin with"
Afaict that's just how activitypub works, it's not designed to make anything anonymous. Votes are public to anything federates with the instance already, you just can't access them through the lemmy ui. But they're not anonymized in the activity stream.
The proposal is instead of federating each vote, each instance sends an anonomized vote count which is the total of their users. That and tokenizing users in vote objects. That and the piefed method: https://lemm.ee/post/40074176
My thoughts? My opinion don’t matter for shit but frankly idgaf either way. I dont care who sees what.
Voting is bad. One thing we should #take from stormfront is old Reddit just got this feature recently where when you scroll past a post it turns down the opacity a bit. Really helps to see what you've read and what is new
The cognitive dissonance between the responses to this recommendation and the same people lambasting Twitter for removing this is wild
I think that removing public likes from X was a good idea.
You think that using X is a good idea then, if you're positively reacting to patch notes for it. I find you viscerally disgusting. Stay on your shit site full of racists so you can enjoy being a public clown if you must. But it makes you opinion completely worthless to me and indicates you don't know how to spend your time.
I'd like it to be an opt-in thing so my crushes don't notice me upbearing all their posts
Guys if you want them to add public votes please make a GitHub account (I know I know) and give a thumbs up on the issue or a comment.
make votes only visible on your own comments. I might elaborate further but likely wont.