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.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    That’s precisely your issue before. Voting in reddit is not private as admins know that info and can share with anyone so the “bad voter” could get prosecuted. But users, like you, think it’s private because they don’t see it.

    Be consistent with your argument at least.

    I will disengage here. Bye!

    • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
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      1 day ago

      How likely is an admin to share something with someone else vs something being already public?