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.

  • dirtydocmark@sh.itjust.works
    36·
    22 days ago

    You can see the number of votes here too. Why does your hand need to be held? It’s the fucking internet, guy.

    • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
      6·
      22 days ago

      I can see the number of votes but not who voted. This gives the impression that this information is not available publicly. However, it can be accessed by anyone on third party websites.