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I was editing one of my posts and saw a "View votes" in the dropdown hamburger for the post. Now I can see who serial downvotes. Nice.

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[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 108 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just a reminder that votes should be considered public, because anyone can gain access to them by either setting up their own lemmy server or moving to another federated service that displays them upfront (kbin/mbin)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/users/03-votes-and-ranking.md#vote-privacy

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The one brave downvoter for this post, lol. It better not be the widders from Seattle, I'll be pissed.

Ain’t gots no shins!

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank you, I had been wondering who downvoted a long string of my comments a couple days ago

I still have no idea why, but it's funny that I can just go look at their profile. It's tempting to just downvote a bunch of their similarly innocuous comments but that seems dumb lol.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On PieFed the vote buttons are disabled when viewing someone's profile.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That's pretty cool, I didn't know that!

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Be the bigger person and start upvoting their shit.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I upvote all your posts, like a tic or something.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m flattered but also concerned.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SatansMaggotyCumFart says

I’m flattered but also concerned.

QED

I literally can’t tell if you’re calling me an asshole or are hitting on me.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Lol, that's what I'll do! Hell yeah!

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

Fuck all those cute boys gonna know I swoon for them thx for doxxing me you've ruined my life

[–] db2@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never assume anything you do on servers you don't own are private. In fact don't even do it then, encrypt that shit.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Dang it I got rickrolled again?!

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought you need a public key to read it or some sht, idr how pgp works

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

You do. That comment of mine, as is, is entirely worthless.

The sender (in this case, that would be me) needs to encrypt the message using either:

  1. The public key of the recipient
  2. A custom passphrase
  3. Any combination of the above, including multiple different public keys

That way, the only people who can decrypt the message is a person with the private key that is paired with any of the public keys that the message was encrypted with OR literally anybody that happens to have the passphrase it was encrypted with.

I think I had encrypted that message using just my own public key, so as I said, the message is completely useless to anybody but myself.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tying votes to accounts is pretty much required by the way activity-pub works; an upvote is basically the same as a heart/like on old Twitter and with federation it needs to know where the vote is coming from and where it’s going.

Piefed has an option to try to circumvent this by creating a second, “fake” account with no obvious connection to your own account and sends all your votes using that account. If the instance doesn’t have many accounts, though, it can still be obvious who’s voting.

As others have mentioned, other front ends or services can show the votes publicly to anyone who wants to see it. Even on other platforms that use a voting system one should always assume the votes are tied to one’s account.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Piefed stopped that actually and now instead have an option to not have your votes federate to other instance entirely.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How does the algorithm work then for hot and top?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

The same. But a vote that does not federate will only have an impact on the instance where it was cast.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure. Here's the post where it went live, with links to the lead up at the bottom. I guess just ask @rimu@piefed.social

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I’d missed that update!

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here's the link in case you didn't see my other comment here.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks, so this was recent!

Literally everyone can see how anyone votes. Others have mentioned lemvotes already.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, I have a small handful of troll accounts that I tag and downvote whenever I see them posting. Sometimes they go on a posting tangent and I end up with a string of downvoting which looks bad without context

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Now that lemmy has grown I've gotten a lot more liberal with the block function. Fact that it's right next to the reply button is nifty.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's one of the things that I don't like about Lemmy. But unless there's better service that's not centralized I guess I will remain here for at least some time.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

I think PieFed has something to "fix" this. IIRC, they have a second account just for voting. You use your main account, but the random second account is used for voting

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Users can do this too via the website lemvotes.org.

It's also a feature of Tesseract (but isn't as easy to use).

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 1 week ago

And tesseract is discontinued :(

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

What if you voted but then un-voted? Is that visible?

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A bot that reveals that behaviour to the community would be very helpful.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That would be helpful. The only problem is, I've found a person that is definitely a serial downvoter, but I can't ban them because they don't make comments. I guess I'll ask the admin to do it.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can ban anyone from your communities with tesseract.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I love tesseract, but it doesn't save my settings. I guess I could go in and do that specifically. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Call their behaviour out in the community?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

It's a small, new community, which is why I know that they're doing it. It's blatantly obvious.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Voting is kind of lame IMO. I wish it would die with Reddit. Large or small votes, my feed always seems to still be what it is, and I don't filter by votes or anything like that. Don't pay it much attention other than to maybe acknowledge the person above me.

Actually if my local community subreddit taught me anything, I've often got more in common with the downvoted folks.