JackbyDev

Yeah, I don’t really care for micro blogging.

Unless two instances had the exact same set of servers they’re federated with then I wouldn’t expect any given content to have the same number of likes/comments/etc when viewed from different instances.

1. Anything can change while major version is zero
2. Technically, semver only tracks public API changes

https://youtu.be/S87sq7aqnQo?t=7m41s

Ahhhh, okay. I was expecting it to be under a user but it is attached to the post. That makes targeted harassment marginally more difficult but regardless, I definitely can see that it’s trivial to see the upvotes (favorites) and downvotes (reduces).

Whether or not this is “good” or “bad” I’m still undecided on, but you’ve officially convinced me that it is trivial to see exactly who voted (and how) on a post (or comment). You do not need to “set up an instance” like many people say.

All it will take is for folks to look and see you voted in something and they won’t see the context or will misunderstand your intentions and they’ll ban you. This shit happened back on Reddit too and it sucked. They’d blanket ban people who interacted in a community without looking at what you actually did.

Sill waiting for someone to show me how to see what someone up votes and down votes on Lemmy through a pre-existing Mbin or Mastodon instance. That’s really been the only convincing argument to make them public that I’ve heard. (That convinces me, I mean.) But nobody has shown it is possible through fedia.io for example. I tried but couldn’t see it, but it’s possible I was looking in the wrong place.

It’s on mbin’s post/comment under more > activity. Not under a user’s profile.

why ban them?

They were describing someone who downvoted everything seconds within the post arriving.

Please be vocal about this because I’ve seen two people say they didn’t see this behavior. ❤️

Barring setting up an instance or viewing through mbin, I don’t think mods can see them. Only admins.

Could be.

Edit: Even after logging in I see the same view.

I don’t view it as a problem in the same way I don’t view messages not being end to end encrypted as a problem. I assume admins can see everything.

No, I just don’t see how setting up an entire instance being a good argument. As others have suggested you can check it from mbin right now. I couldn’t find it though. If that’s the case then my opinion changes.

I checked and didn’t see them there, but maybe I was looking in the wrong place. Not saying they don’t exist there. Fwiw, I wouldn’t be replying with what I did if people had said something like that instead. I just find it laughable that people suggest setting up a whole instance as if that’s a simple thing. Checking from an mbin instance is a much better argument.

I just tried to see them and I couldn’t. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place though. I saw dates but not the actual posts/comments.

🤓 Sci-tastic!

I love seeing simple questions and personal achievement posts though.

No they don’t :(

“All you’d need to do is set up an instance” is waaaayyyyyy more work than “all you need to do is click their profile”

I believe there is precedent for that. I’ve seen people from HexBear say that because their instance doesn’t have down votes they leave comments to criticize people. I get the appeal of wanting people to justify downvotes but this is a casual internet forum. Nobody is going to do that every single time. I’m more concerned it will lead to more simple negative comments like “this is stupid”.