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...
Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here.
All you need to do is look at the post from a federated instance running software that doesn’t hide the information. Here is a link to your post from my instance, which shows upvote info:
https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1097629/Lemmy-devs-are-considering-making-all-votes-public-have-your/comment/6869259/favourites
To view down votes, they might need to host their own instance? I don’t know offhand of another software that shows downvote information, but even though Mbin does not show it, I think it should still be accessible if you’re running the instance yourself and looking directly at the database.
All you need to do is look at the post from a federated instance running software that doesn’t hide the information. Here is a link to your post from my instance, which shows upvote info: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1097629/Lemmy-devs-are-considering-making-all-votes-public-have-your/comment/6869259/favourites
To view down votes, they might need to host their own instance? I don’t know offhand of another software that shows downvote information, but even though Mbin does not show it, I think it should still be accessible if you’re running the instance yourself and looking directly at the database.