AuDHD ♾️ Queer 💜 FOSS enthusiast 👩💻 anarcho-trotskiest 🏴🛠️ (actually just an antisectarian ecosocialist who is naive enough to believe in socialist unity)
Zero. Upvotes are a show of appreciation and I don’t see why anyone would want that to be private. When it comes to downvotes, if you wouldn’t want someone to know you downvoted something, you can’t stand by that decision and so shouldn’t have downvoted in the first place. Public reactions (alongside the self moderation features) keeps the fediverse honest and prevents the hostile type of downvote spamming you see on other platforms like reddit.
Yeh, sorry. I don’t know if you saw my edit or are responding to my original comment. If the original, I was mistaken. If the edit, then it’s a setting.
I might have to switch to Piefed from mbin. Both are far better than Lemmy imo, but piefed is starting to leave mbin in the dust too. I keep hearing of ways piefed just does things better.
yes, I am currently on the Interstellar app. I was shocked to learn this isn’t how Lemmy handles it. To me, it’s one of the features of the Threadiverse: Some posts are relevant to multiple communities/magazines and I might only be in one of them, but I still want to see the comments from the other posts. In mbin and interstellar, I see the posts in my feed, but it tells me where else it was posted, and shows me the comments from the other posts. Once I’ve read one, it marks the others as read too
Be as thoughtful as you want to be knowing that if you choose to downvote a whole bunch of comments, someone can know it was you. If someone knows that a single person is downvoting every single one of their comments they can block them if they wish. My main point is just that if you don’t want someone knowing you upvoted or downvoted them, just don’t do it. It would mostly just be trolls who want to hide it anyway