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.

  • some_guyEnglish
    42·
    7 months ago

    I’m not a jackass with downvotes, so I’m not worried.

      • some_guyEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        I don’t use downvotes unless someone is factually wrong in a big way, posts something homophobic / racist / etc, or acts rude without cause and the like. Some people downvote every comment they disagree with. I don’t think that’s how downvotes ought to be used. Nor do I brigade.

        • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
          1·
          7 months ago

          There is no real “guidelines” about what votes should be used for. Some people use upvotes for visibility, some use it for agreeing. Downvotes are used for disagreeing, reducing visibility, ad hominem, what not.

          Even on a personal level, I cannot clearly say what criteria I use for deciding what to vote