[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...

I really wanted to post this on !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net but I’m not trans myself and I didn’t want to take up their space.

Basically, the devs of Lemmy are looking to make upvotes public to everyone. Right now, I believe voter identities are known to server admins and mods.

I don’t have a strong opinion on this myself, either for or against, as I write this comment, but I’m wondering if there’s something I’m missing, frankly as a cishet dude.

But also… I’ve kinda lost trust in Nutomic making decisions about the software that won’t make things worse for trans people since his comments on the Olympics were made public. Dessalines has (so far) at least tolerated Nutomic’s transphobia despite whatever prior rhetoric. Frankly, I am suspicious that trans people don’t matter to the Lemmy dev team…to be charitable…so I’d really like to hear your thoughts.

  • Dickey_Butts [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    101·
    1 month ago

    Votes should be public. If you don’t like it, don’t upvote racist shit.

    The ideological flip-flop on this from some people is very funny to me, and I’m sure they know who they are. Some of yall are cowards.

    • I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      They aren’t cowards! No, no! They are just concerned with the lurkers “too shy to comment” being scared off from liking their posts by this change.

      The site is perfectly healthy and active. We’ve just lost a few programmers, that’s all. There’s been a proliferation of people repeating the same jokes to make up for it!