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 🌻
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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?
Edit: now that I think about it, polls are already a thing on Mastodon but I don’t know if they have these issues or not.
Depends entirely on how it’s implemented. But almost certainly yes
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.
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.
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.
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[x] Maybe
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Can you repeat the question
You’re not the boss of me now!
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Shit, it might be time for a MitM rewatch to see if it’s still aged like a fine wine.
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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?
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!
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!
If it’s a community, OK. If it’s something else, I definately want to know that too.
It’s a community
That was exactly my thought when asking. But it seems it’s the former.
If we want polls we must join-lemmy.org/donate
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
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
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Yes. I think it would be helpful.
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
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Let’s take a poll and find out!
You could open an RFC to begin more formal discussion
Looks like it might be cool to have.
Sure? Maybe also small Wikis for some communities.
Open polls are one of the few good things about Facebook.
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