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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    5 hours ago

    Important to note here, too, is that ip addresses of users arent synced across instances.

    This is only a problem for people who care about the reputation of their user account - which is something people should be rotating out anyway if they care about their privacy.