Currently, each thread has the “Activity” link that shows publicly everyone that upvoted/favorite a thread. This is counter norm to many coming from Reddit and newer folks that expected otherwise. I think hiding the list should be high priority in next feature update(removal?) to encourage frictionless upvoting behavior.
Case in point, NSFW threads are starting on kbin now, cross that with micro blogging that may involve people using real names, this creates unexpected personal preference being exposed.
As a option, Boost feature may still left to public view.
Anonymity is important. Let me know if I misunderstood how this works.
I can totally see someone going to political threads and just making a list of all the people that downvoted/upvoted it to then target later
I’m still a little new with all this but from my understanding of the underlying federated protocol, this isn’t really easily possible. It might be possible to remove the listing from the kbin and/or lemmy interfaces, but that would be visual-only: I think it will always be technically possible for another piece of software privy to the federated network to inspect these things about a post. Due to this, I think it would be better to show them and have it be known that this information is public than to hide them just on kbin and have it be a nasty surprise for users that the information is still relatively trivially accessible on another front-end or tool.
I think the safest course of action would be to have a separate account for interacting with information you do not want associated with your primary identity, as I suspect a “fix” for this issue that conceals voters is a long time out and on an ActivityPub protocol level, not a kbin level.
If true, that aspect alone is going to lose a lot of users. It becomes too much trouble to hide information you don’t want accidentally revealed.
It would be better to find a solution that grants actual anonymity. Otherwise, people will stop engaging for fear that it might someday be used against them.
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As another user pointed out, what about an LGBT person wanting to upvote something but not feeling safe if someone knows their username? Or a woman living in a place with abortion bounties wanting to upvote something about how to get help, but being afraid to?
Or someone with an abusive spouse who might read between the lines (correctly or incorrectly) of what you upvote/downvote and get angry about it?
There are a lot of highly significant real world ramifications to having your vote history publicly accessible. Losing your job and life or death consequences far outweigh the online voting system considerations.
The possible problems caused by this FAR outweigh the possible benefits. People are just not thinking this through enough to see how badly it can go.
