I have been using lemmy for a while now (since Reddit’s API issues) and just recently discovered this website:

https://lemvotes.org/user/

Seems I can simply input any user and I get their whole history of upvotes and downvotes, with dates and links. I also tried it with a Piefed user and it worked.

Kind of a deal breaker for me. Don’t feel comfortable even upvoting when these details are public to anyone.

  • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    As long as votes are tied to your account they won’t be private, because at the least the admins of your server (whether lemmy, piefed, or reddit) can see them. The difference with lemmy and piefed is that because of federation, the admins of any instance can see them - so anyone interested could just make their own instance, federate with your home server, and then see your votes.

    As long as this is the case, it makes more sense to not try to pretend that votes are private and make ineffective attempts to hide them, imo.

    If this isn’t something you’re on board with, though, you may want to look into piefed cuz iirc @rimu was working on a way for piefed instances to only federate a vote total and not individual user votes. AFAIK your votes would still be visible to your instance admins, which gives it an equivalent level of vote privacy to reddit (except that you get to choose who to trust, which is a pretty large benefit).