A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I’m not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn’t see much juice on the topic, so thought I’d spark it up.
Personally would like to see polls, but I’m sure there are people who don’t want it too. Let me know your thoughts 🌻
Benefit of
You mean ‘Benefit from’, here, right?
yeah… not my mother tongue sorry.
I want to see lemmy grow and be a really feature rich platform with no lack in features so yes i would love to see encrypted pm, polls etc.
Open polls are one of the few good things about Facebook.
If we want polls we must join-lemmy.org/donate
Looks like it might be cool to have.
You could open an RFC to begin more formal discussion
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[x] Maybe
I don’t knooow
Can you repeat the question
You’re not the boss of me now!
Shit, it might be time for a MitM rewatch to see if it’s still aged like a fine wine.
Yes. I think it would be helpful.
Its a good idea, but how would that work with federation? There is already an issue with the number of upvotes on a post differing between instances. Would polls have the same problem or no?
It would work the exact same way, i.e. every instance would have its own idea of the results, depending on what instances are (de)federated with.
Differences in vote counts among instances is not an issue; it is by design.
It would be really neat to see the differences between instances that take part in the polls, I think it would work fine.
You would just view the poll on the instance you’re curious about and it would show the result from its perspective.
Depends entirely on how it’s implemented. But almost certainly yes
Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That’d be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.
Very good question, I have no idea how it could be implemented. I guess the question would have to be passed onto the developers of Lemmy. I’m sure they have already thought about it, but as you say probably difficult to implement due to federation.
[x] Blurgenfurl
Personally, I would be in favor of having polls because I frequently involve people in taking decisions.
But my use case is quite peculiar because (1) I need to know people’s opinion to take actions based on it, they would not be just informative polls (2) this group of people use Lemmy as their main interaction medium, no other platform is involved.
I’ve resorted to strawpoll in the past or in having comments with multiple options and relying on the most upvoted comment but these solutions have downsides.
Thank you for your work on Raccoon btw
Yeah really good app . Shame its not on the fdroid official repo tho .
I’m kind of against this unless people’s responses are kept private for real (i.e. not stored on the server). Otherwise it’s just more kompromat piling up.
If you’re the Consort, that’s an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game 😛)
How do you store who has voted and what the results of the poll are without storing results on a server? Ultimately it’s just the same sort of data as who upvoted and downvoted what, right?
It’s better than nothing if you record that account X voted in poll Y without recording how they voted. Just keep count of the # of votes for each option. After the poll loses, delete the list of voters for that poll. It might be possible to do something fancier to get more privacy.
One way encryption, same way passwords are stored.
Would that work to obfuscate up/downvotes in general?
Potentially, but any amount of obfuscation opens up the system to abuse.
If you trust the server hosting the community to handle all encryption, it’s trivial for the admin to disable.
If you trust the server sending the vote, then it’s trivial for a server admin to game the system and send hundreds of votes.
I’d welcome polls implementation on Lemmy but maybe this is difficult with federation ? I wouldn’t mind instance only polls.
Polls are already available on Mastodon (with federation) without any issues. This could probably be implemented on Lemmy too, without any problems.
Is it a proper Activitypub feature or a Mastodon hack?
It’s a proper ActivityPub feature
Either way the point is it is possible and as someone aldready said all we have to do is donate to give devs a little more motivation .
can filter out image posts please i hate memes
So you hate 99% of Lemmy then. Maybe stop using it?
Lemmy is not 99% memes. I have most meme communities blocked and I never run out of posts on my feed
“I blocked all the memes and now there’s no memes”
…okay
“I read what you wrote as a standalone comment instead of as a reply so I ignored all context”
…okay
If the person I replied to was correct in saying that 99% of Lemmy is memes and I have memes blocked, that would mean I am only seeing 1% of posts when I browse. I am saying that if that was true, I would run out of posts quite quickly and that has not been my experience at all. I’d wager it’s much closer to 50% memes than 99%
It’s a huge percentage images. Which is what OP specifically mentioned wanting to turn off.
Some clients let you do that
I have yet to find one. The domain filter trick used to work on Reddit because the images had a different domain name that they would be hosted on. That’s not true for Lemmy
I’m using Summit, it can toggle off links, texts, pictures, and video posts
holy shitnuts my man than you
You could just block the communities and instances…?
There are communities with a mix of good content and meme spam
I’d like to see that happen, especially if it comes with the following options to restrict the poll:
- by time
- by instance
- by existing users at the time of the poll’s creation
- single choice, multiple choices, ranked choice