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.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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      You say that like there are not state actors on Reddit. In fact, that canary died a decade or more ago on Reddit. There are astroturfing campaigns from governments all over reddit literally daily.