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.

  • ᛒᛚᚢᛖᛇᚦᛖᚱ (BlueÆther)@no.lastname.nz
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    10 months ago

    I feel hat posts/comments are much more of a privacy exposure than any vote.
    If the OP wants private voting vs their post/comments then two account would be the solution to that - this is how it is done in the backend on piefed

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
      English
      1·
      10 months ago

      Also if only voting is so bad, just don’t vote. Those votes are not used for anything but ranking in lists for others, you’ll not see any difference for yourself if you stop voting.