On every thread or post, if you click on more and activity, you’ll get the info.

I personally find this to be a good things, I’ve seen people using downvote way too easily. I like the idea that we need to be somehow accountable for those mechanism.

edit: It could be somehow improved to have an option to let this info only available between concerned users.

edit edit: I think that up/downvote info shouldn’t be public, but kept private between the users involved. we need to address this privacy issue.

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Public voting is inherent in how the fediverse is structured, it’s impossible for it to both allow upvotes/downvotes and also keep those votes secret. A particular instance could hide them from the interface but any other instance that was federated with it would be able to see them anyway so if you’re worried about stalkers then that’s not going to change anything.

    About the only way I could think of do “solve” this would be to use a pretty sophisticated cryptography technique called zero-knowledge proofs, and given how many people are already having problems with the complexities of federation that’s probably not a good path to follow right now.