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.world
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    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
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      7 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.