I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts

I thought that reactions to posts and comments are anonymous and now I don’t really know what to feel about Lemmy any more.

In this case I had downvoted a poster because of its design, but was confronted publicly for being racist because the person assumed that I downvoted the message on the poster

EDIT: changed the title from “How” to “Why” because it broke rule nr 5 about it being a support question

  • idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    11 hours ago

    If it would be encrypted, it would open up for vote manipulation. There are plans that mods will see who upvotes in their communities. Create multiple accounts on different instances if you need more privacy, separate personalities for different topics.

      • idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        11 hours ago

        If someone has a problem with your alt they can ban it. If votes would be encrypted they would have to defederate the full instance where they come from.

        Create separate accounts for privacy not for vote manipulation