I recently learned that voting on lemmy is not anonymous. Anyone can get information about who has upvoted and downvoted a post or comment.

In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk. Also, people can target you for your votes.

Sadly, this is something where I would prefer Reddit over Lemmy. Big tech scrapes data from both places anyways, at least Reddit is safe.

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    2 days ago

    It’s a federated platform. How could voting have been anonymous?

    Besides, nothing requires you to vote on posts. If you’re not comfortable voting, then don’t vote.

    • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
      52·
      2 days ago

      I am okay with votes being public but then it should be made explicitly clear to users.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        The people I trust the least on these platforms are the admins and owners of them. Your voting wasn’t anonymous on reddit to those people either.

        • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
          1·
          11 hours ago

          True but it is very less likely that admins will target a specific person when they know that information is private and they will get caught easily. Here, other than admins, every user can easily target someone.