If you click on the “more” button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I’m not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it’s interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.
Hopefully there might be an option to keep this sort of thing private in account settings soon. Reddit let you choose what account activity is publicly visible, and I see no reason why Lemmy shouldn’t have this feature, as well.
Hidden would be a more accurate word, as the way ActivityPub works means that data has to be sent to every instance so gaining access to it isn’t very hard. It can never be truly anonymous or private.
The way it works in Kbin makes more sense if you think less of Reddit and more of Twitter instead - Boosts (original Kbin upvotes) are retweets and repost it to your followers, Favourites/Upvotes are likes.
Although the amount of people who don’t realise that Twitter likes are public is amusing.
Agreed, I wouldn’t use it, but it would make sense to make it an option.