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.
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They want you to know that they downvoted you
Ohh, what a mature take lol.
Anonymously voting is the hardly the mature option. It’s not very adult of you to want to influence content but not be linked to it in any way, shape, or form.
Putting your name to your vote and standing by it seems way more mature.
I see, why don’t you post your full name and social security number? Take real accountability for your actions.
This is a stupid take. My point was never that voting should be changed from public to private now. My point is that if it is public, make it explicitly known that it is.
But they do. You replied to someone showing you the page where they discuss voting data.
Not their fault you didn’t read the full terms when you made your account. Not their responsibility to go down a list of every feature Lemmy has or doesn’t have compared to other social media.
Is it your first day on the internet outside of reddit?
I am saying it should be made clear. I never said that it not specified anywhere and I can drag them to court for it.
Why should it be made clear? Because you’re used to a different system? Take that entitlement and shove it up your own ass on your way back to leddit. Sorry, Lemmy isn’t sucking off your weird need to influence yet remain anonymous.
I don’t want to be anonymous. I want to know that I am not anonymous.