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Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes reporting technically covers the last one. But usually not. Not all subs have rules against bigotry, trolling, dog whistles, general assholery, etc. I strongly hold it's important that downvoting is an option to deal with these kinda things. It's a way to show everyone that the comment isn't acceptable.

Plus even when reporting is an option, it may not be fast enough. Can't really automate removals, either, as people will abuse that.

Arguably "disagree but acceptable" should just not upvote. In a certain sense, that's already a middle option.