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

  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    10 hours ago

    Yeah, if you wanna lurk and not comment because you want to stay private then I recommend not voting at all.
    If a person is already engaging in communities with comments like you and I are right now then I think the added details from our upvotes only strengthen what they already know from our comments.

    I think most of my upvotes are in comment chains like this, when I think that they add value and are on topic.