Looks like this decision is decided already but I figured I’d put in my input. Given this instance has an open registration policy, nothing is stopping someone from another instance to create an alternative just for voting on this instance. This individual might align and contribute positively to the fediverse and have really great ideas and contributions to discussions here. However because they use their alt account here on sh.itjust.works only for voting, their vote might get dismissed due to poor account reputation (another issue that I believe was already brought up in another post). The fediverse is meant to be a decentralized community and by forcing people to need to join this community to vote promotes centralization which I believe is the opposite of what the fediverse is trying to accomplish. I guess for now I’ll hold off on casting my vote until the community determines what criteria should be considered when counting a vote.

Aye

Edit: changing to nay after reading The Dude’s comment.

Nay

Like TheDude said, it goes against the very nature of decentralization.

Aye

Nay.

Servers are an implementation detail that shouldn’t matter to users in the first place.

Nay because anyone can make an account here who has an account elsewhere. In practice it makes absolutely no difference unless we somehow restrict account creation here which I also say Nay to doing so.

Nay

People from different instances visit communities on this one and must follow its rules, so they should have a say on them.
Moreover, having to create a separate account just to be able to vote here is impractical, but I doubt it will stop those who are in bad faith.

Nay.

I changed my vote because I have been using the federated functionality and it’s awesome.

Nay (Even though I’m on sh.itjust.works)

There is no point to have a Federated community not allowing federated users

Lemmy is not made to create an account on every instances either, don’t create a myriad of accounts on every instances, this defies the point why Federation principle was made, to dispatch the content and the load

Aye

Of course their input should always be welcomed, but the final decision should be ours.

Nay. I feel this suggestion is based in the old centralized platform mentality. That isn’t to say it is wrong, but it seems based in a premise that does not apply to a federated platform. If you start thinking about how a federated platform actually works, I could join this community…and others on this instance…from an account on another server. Why would we treat someone as second class citizens for using the Fediverse in the way it was intended?

For those thinking “they can just make an account here if they want to vote”, you are right. They could. But that also goes back to centralist mentality. We want to be able to interact with people and communities regardless of which instance houses the data object that is my account. From that perspective, I feel voting should be more inclusive than just those who have a user object stored on this instance.

My question back to you would be, what problem are you trying to solve by this limitation? I’m sure there are any number of hurdles we will need to address with open voting, but we have to identify those problems first.

Nay

We have open registration anyway, so there wouldn’t be much friction if an outsider wanted to create an account to vote. We’re large enough that we can rely on our numbers, we just need to make sure everyone knows about the Agora.

Aye.

Service guarantees citizenship.

Nay, I thought half the point was that “the instance you join doesn’t matter much.” I’d generally like more cohesion, not walled communities that you need 5 different accounts for.

Edit: I want to add to this. Nowhere in the community description here does it say it’s meant for sh.itjust.works community discussion/voting. I think there’s value in a community closed to sh.itjust.works that ONLY discusses sh.itjust.works relevant topics/polls. But this isn’t the community for it.