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  • I was discussing this in another thread, this is a bit of an overstatement.

    While logs may track what you view on some instances, the data on who views what is not public and not accessible to anyone except perhaps some instance admins depending on how they store logs.

    Votes are public on Lemmy, and I think long term that’ll be beneficial for the platform and users.






  • You’re reading too much into my comment.

    I am a software engineer, and am always thinking of user experiences in my day job. This is simply the scenario that popped into my mind, but many do exist.

    Besides hacking, phishing scams, and pranks. Users trick others all the time into viewing content they didn’t mean to view.

    My concern isn’t so much that this can happen at all, but rather that if views were public, how it’d be trivial to write software that auto bans users based on those views. Without great moderation tools, and petitioning it wouldn’t scale well.