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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

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

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

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

    • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      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.