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
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      2 months ago

      I know you are being sarcastic and edgy but point is that voting is assumed to be private by the average person because it is anonymous in elections, it is anonymous on the closest social platform Reddit and popular websites like youtube.

      • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        And reddit also has a problen where you can use bots to farm upvotes and because you cant see that information means you cant tell if posts are legit or propaganda

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months 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.

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        2 months ago

        I don’t know how to break this… But voting in Lemmy is not choosing a president.

        Voting is like booing or clapping in a public agora. It’s not private. If you assume is private that’s on you.

        Not even on your beloved reddit. Reddit admins know all your votes.