It's confusing enough understanding how federation works for the less technically inclined. I don't think we should also expect them to figure out which instance is privacy-conscious. Privacy of votes should be baked into Lemmy. Even kbin users shouldn't be able to see it.

If users want to advertise their approval/disapproval of posts they can use public comments in tandem with private votes.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 18 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Privacy of votes should be baked into Lemmy. Even kbin users shouldn’t be able to see it.

This is impossible. The underlying protocol, ActivityPub does not have the concept of private votes. It is not up to Lemmy to decide. You'd need to revise the protocol for this and good luck with that.

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

ActivityPub can't evolve? Is there some insurmountable technical blocker?

I suspected this would be an issue and have avoided voting on controversial posts. But if everyone did as I do, there would be no open discussions about pressing topics.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Evolving ActivityPub is not easy, any additions to the protocol take a lot of time and discussions between the various implementers.

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