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
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.
[ ] 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.
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.
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
Yeah really good app . Shame its not on the fdroid official repo tho .
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?
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 .
Let’s take a poll and find out!
Looks like it might be cool to have.
Sure? Maybe also small Wikis for some communities.
[x] Blurgenfurl
Why is Javascript on Twitter?
This wasn’t taken from Twitter.
That was a lame joke about the check mark. 😔
Oh, that was a bit difficult to catch hehe 🙃
Benefit of
You mean ‘Benefit from’, here, right?
yeah… not my mother tongue sorry.
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.
