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.

  • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
    52·
    3 days ago

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

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 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·
        1 day 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.