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 🌻
Why is Javascript on Twitter?
Most of the fediverse already has polls, and can post things to lemmy groups. So yeah it would be nice to be able to see them properly.
What’s a Lemmy group?
If it’s a community, OK. If it’s something else, I definately want to know that too.
It’s a community
There’s a very long history of calling things like lemmy communities “groups”. In my case I’m old and the habit comes from Usenet.
My first exposure to that interchangable use in the Lemmy lexicon. Now I Know!
Lemmy and other Fediverse applications use the ActivityPub protocol under the hood. The ActivityPub protocol has something called “groups”, which Lemmy uses as communities. So groups and communities are the same thing essentially but other software (like Mastodon) calls groups something else and not necessarily communities. But I’m not an expert.
Thanks for clearing that up!
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
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
Let’s take a poll and find out!
Looks like it might be cool to have.
Benefit of
You mean ‘Benefit from’, here, right?
yeah… not my mother tongue sorry.
Sure? Maybe also small Wikis for some communities.
If we want polls we must join-lemmy.org/donate
Open polls are one of the few good things about Facebook.
I do not want to see polls added unless it’s only moderators and admins who can post them. If Lemmy is anything like reddit (it is), the vast majority of them will be useless clutter…people posting polls as “content.”
It encourages clicking a button over leaving a reply. We’ll get a thousand “Do you think [thing] or [other thing]” posts with very little engagement.
[x] Blurgenfurl
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[x] Maybe
I don’t knooow
Can you repeat the question
Shit, it might be time for a MitM rewatch to see if it’s still aged like a fine wine.
You’re not the boss of me now!
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 closes, 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.
Yes. I think it would be helpful.