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just wanted to ask this bc lemmy supposedly has public upvotes/downvotes and I don't know if kbin has it too

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[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Public. But on my instance they are private. And a lot more improvements.

More -> Activity shows who boosted.

[–] vaguerant@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Isn't that privacy more illusory than actual? You're not surfacing the web pages which show the votes, but the protocol is openly sharing that info and anybody can still see what your instance's users have voted on just by looking at them from a different instance. I'm not going to out anybody, but it was trivial for me to find that thread here on kbin.social and see exactly who upvoted it, including a kglitch.social user.

[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes.

But downvotes, the only really drama-causing aspect of this, are not federated so won't be visible from another instance.

[–] YMS@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Downvotes are not federaded on your instance or on kbin in general or even on AcitivityPub in general?

Cause that would look like an probably little known factor for choosing an instance.

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