- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
I really wanted to post this on [email protected] but I’m not trans myself and I didn’t want to take up their space.
Basically, the devs of Lemmy are looking to make upvotes public to everyone. Right now, I believe voter identities are known to server admins and mods.
I don’t have a strong opinion on this myself, either for or against, as I write this comment, but I’m wondering if there’s something I’m missing, frankly as a cishet dude.
But also… I’ve kinda lost trust in Nutomic making decisions about the software that won’t make things worse for trans people since his comments on the Olympics were made public. Dessalines has (so far) at least tolerated Nutomic’s transphobia despite whatever prior rhetoric. Frankly, I am suspicious that trans people don’t matter to the Lemmy dev team…to be charitable…so I’d really like to hear your thoughts.
The potential for drama is
Now when people get into a spat they will be able to compile a list of everyone who sides with their enemy or agrees with them
Personally, admin can already see votes if we need to purge reactionaries which is plenty of transparency as far as I’m concerned. Although imagining a big struggle session on here with public upvotes is very funny, I’ll admit
Me destroying someone’s tl;dr novela of a post with “[bad take] upvoter.”
Awesome, dude. That sounds like totally normal and non-toxic behaviour. Terminally online people looking for new ways to be terminally online.
Exactly why changes to the design of the site shouldn’t encourage toxicity
the reality is people will just vote less and that’s fine.
RIP “food for thought” upvotes
if my upvote is perceived as a public co-sign, it’s gonna be a lot less common
Personally I don’t see an issue with that. Back in the old days most posts didn’t have likes.
Yup and that’s why I don’t upvote/down vote anything…I never developed the habit on old forums. Honestly wish we could go back to the old internet before likes. Too many people addicted to getting dopamine hits of digital approval.