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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    2 days ago

    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.