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?

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      And they will also be needed to distinguish votes by spammers and bots

      All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based

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        1 year ago

        This is something that we could leave up to the admins and their tools to figure out rather than making everyone’s voting history public.

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        All lemmy users will have to host a cache of the entire fediverse and run their own content sorting algorithm. Moderation and voting will be subscription based

        Damn, that sounds awesome. I hadn’t envisioned that scenario but it makes a lot of sense.