Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? ( slrpnk.net )

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 🌻

Andonyx ,

Why is Javascript on Twitter?

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

This wasn't taken from Twitter.

Andonyx ,

That was a lame joke about the check mark. 😔

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

Oh, that was a bit difficult to catch hehe 🙃

Tag365 ,
@Tag365@lemmy.world avatar

Looks like it might be cool to have.

corsicanguppy ,

Benefit of

You mean 'Benefit from', here, right?

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

yeah.. not my mother tongue sorry.

Legend ,

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.

Aopen ,

If we want polls we must join-lemmy.org/donate

kbal ,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

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.

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

What's a Lemmy group?

warmaster ,

If it's a community, OK. If it's something else, I definately want to know that too.

JackGreenEarth ,
@JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee avatar

It's a community

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

That was exactly my thought when asking. But it seems it's the former.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

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.

ericjmorey , (edited )
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

Thanks for clearing that up!

kbal ,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

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.

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

My first exposure to that interchangable use in the Lemmy lexicon. Now I Know!

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

Open polls are one of the few good things about Facebook.

glimse ,

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.

h3ndrik , (edited )

Sure? Maybe also small Wikis for some communities.

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

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
Jakdracula ,
@Jakdracula@lemmy.world avatar

Let’s take a poll and find out!

Ludrol ,
@Ludrol@szmer.info avatar

You could open an RFC to begin more formal discussion

nutsack ,

can filter out image posts please i hate memes

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

You could just block the communities and instances..?

nutsack ,

There are communities with a mix of good content and meme spam

smeg ,

Some clients let you do that

nutsack ,

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

smeg ,

I'm using Summit, it can toggle off links, texts, pictures, and video posts

nutsack ,

holy shitnuts my man than you

TrickDacy ,

So you hate 99% of Lemmy then. Maybe stop using it?

glimse ,

Lemmy is not 99% memes. I have most meme communities blocked and I never run out of posts on my feed

TrickDacy ,

It's a huge percentage images. Which is what OP specifically mentioned wanting to turn off.

Assman ,
@Assman@sh.itjust.works avatar

"I blocked all the memes and now there's no memes"

...okay

glimse ,

"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%

lemmyreader ,

I'd welcome polls implementation on Lemmy but maybe this is difficult with federation ? I wouldn't mind instance only polls.

hash0772 ,

Polls are already available on Mastodon (with federation) without any issues. This could probably be implemented on Lemmy too, without any problems.

Microw ,

Is it a proper Activitypub feature or a Mastodon hack?

Legend ,

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 .

andrew_s ,
@andrew_s@piefed.social avatar

It's a proper ActivityPub feature

solrize ,

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.

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

If you're the Consort, that's an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game 😛)

smeg ,

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?

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

One way encryption, same way passwords are stored.

smeg ,

Would that work to obfuscate up/downvotes in general?

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

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.

solrize , (edited )

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.

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