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 🌻

cralder , (edited )
@cralder@lemmy.world avatar

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.

SturgiesYrFase ,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Depends entirely on how it's implemented. But almost certainly yes

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

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.

Barbarian ,
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

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.

Almrond ,

It would be really neat to see the differences between instances that take part in the polls, I think it would work fine.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

You would just view the poll on the instance you're curious about and it would show the result from its perspective.

catharso ,

[ ] Yes

[ ] No

[x] Maybe

Blaze ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

I don't knooow

Can you repeat the question

lowleveldata ,

/c/[email protected]

0x0 ,

You're not the boss of me now!

Legend ,

He was before ? Also are you looking for a boss replacement ?

Catoblepas ,

Shit, it might be time for a MitM rewatch to see if it’s still aged like a fine wine.

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.

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!

Aopen ,
@Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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

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
DieguiTux8623 ,
@DieguiTux8623@feddit.it avatar

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.

Blaze ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Thank you for your work on Raccoon btw

Legend ,

Yeah really good app . Shame its not on the fdroid official repo tho .

technomad ,

Yes. I think it would be helpful.

lemmyreader ,

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

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

Tag365 ,
@Tag365@lemmy.world avatar

Looks like it might be cool to have.

h3ndrik , (edited )

Sure? Maybe also small Wikis for some communities.

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

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

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

[x] Blurgenfurl

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