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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      11 hours ago

      ohh, so you can’t put train a small compendium everything a person wrote then infer things about that person based on their life. Good to know.

      I’ve been dealing with IP’s for about 30 year now, also good to know.