RIP again to all the people who upvote as a way of marking as read
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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I upvoted this thread. Just so the mods know :^)
https://hexbear.net/comment/6038478
You can see that the Hexbear admin already posted on this update. Also Mods being able to see user upvotes is not new. I think this update only adds a new feature which allows mods to view votes in a different way. Your votes are not a secret. Lemmy is not a {battle bots|ballot box}.
Votes aren't secret, but allowing community mods, not just admins, being able to see them is new
Also a federated non-Lemmy software can also see all votes, and can choose whether to display them or not. Votes have never been private and never can be. They're just hidden away.
If any common user wants to see them, they can set up their own server (thus becoming the admin) and pull in any federated content they want to see the details of.
This is true, although with Hexbear specifically, you might have to get approval to federate
Right, I hope that our mods would defed any instance acting in bad faith, but it's possible that if something were to change it would be too late anyway since that instance would have all the data already.
Yeah. I think we operate on an allowlist system as opposed to a blocklist system like many other instances
Didn't we already have this?
Admins could, now mods can for the comms they moderate
Lemmy 
How long til lemmy votes look like Facebook where you can see who liked a post/comment?
As other users have already pointed out, it's this way even before the update if you create your own federated instance since admins can already see this
I gota be honest. I'm surprised a removeddit doesn't exist yet for Lemmy. Or at least that I know of.
The decentralized nature of federation might make it simultaneously harder and easier. I wonder if instance admins can see deleted posts/comments from other instances since those deletions and edits have to federate.
I am being targeted for upvoting beanis
Couldn't they do that already?
As far as I understand: admins yes, mods no
Huh
aw crap