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.

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I like piefed because it lets you see at a glance if someone is a serial downvoter. On each piefed user profile is a thing called “attitude” and it’s a ratio of your upvotes vs downvotes. 100% means the person doesn’t downvote people. 50% means they downvote and upvote equally. 0% is only downvotes. Edit: I saw someone today with negative % so it must be 100% is all upvotes. 0% is half upvotes half downvotes. -100% is all downvotes.

    It shows up for people outside piefed too so i see you too lemmy angry people.

        • poke@sh.itjust.works
          01·
          10 months ago

          Others influence many things about my life. I don’t see it as policing if I’m trying to choose to bring more positivity to the table.