Currently, almost anyone in the Fediverse can see Lemmys votes. Lemmy admins can see votes, as well as mods. Only regular Lemmy users can't. Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?

There is a discussion going on right now considering "making the Lemmy votes public" but I think that premisse is just wrong. The votes are public already, they're just hidden from Lemmy users. Anyone from a kbin/mbin/fedia instance can check out the votes if they are so inclined.

The users right now may fall into a false sense of privacy when voting because the votes are hidden from Lemmy users. If you want to vote something and not show up on the vote list, please create another account to support that type of content and don't tell anyone.

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[–] Xirup@yiffit.net 120 points 3 months ago (34 children)

Wait a minute, so any admin can see which posts do I upvote/downvote?

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, by looking in the DB or the data that's federated as it comes through

[–] ericjmorey@fedia.io 14 points 3 months ago

There's now a UI feature that allows admins to see votes without needing to manually query the database

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