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.
If you ever get banned for the way you vote then abandon that reddit space.
What do you mean by Reddit space?
Many subreddits ban you for interacting with subreddits they don’t like for personal reasons.
If the same thing happens here it’s our duty as users to abandon that space
That’s why redundant communities are important. Admins and mods make different decisions and heavily shape culture in the community.
Many don’t like it but I think it’s a beautiful feature of the Fediverse.
If there are redundant communities then the communities are diluted and less active.
Double edged sword
That may be true but it makes the Lemmyverse much more robust in the long term.
I don’t care if I have to subscribe to multiple similar communities or see some posts multiple times, as long as not one or just a few people control the whole discourse.
If you live in certain fascist countries and government officials link your identity and account, suddenly they can confirm if you are undesirable