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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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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't tell anyone, but your posts and comments are also public.

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only you can see this comment Daniskarma. The Leering League of Lemmy SEES you Daniskarma and we have taken notice. Cease your efforts to spread information about public posts and comments, or ELSE Daniskarma. We're watching you.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

Why is this comment completely empty?

[–] npdean@lemmy.today -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I know you are being sarcastic and edgy but point is that voting is assumed to be private by the average person because it is anonymous in elections, it is anonymous on the closest social platform Reddit and popular websites like youtube.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 12 points 21 hours ago

And reddit also has a problen where you can use bots to farm upvotes and because you cant see that information means you cant tell if posts are legit or propaganda

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know how to break this... But voting in Lemmy is not choosing a president.

Voting is like booing or clapping in a public agora. It's not private. If you assume is private that's on you.

Not even on your beloved reddit. Reddit admins know all your votes.

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Admins know but users don’t.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's precisely your issue before. Voting in reddit is not private as admins know that info and can share with anyone so the "bad voter" could get prosecuted. But users, like you, think it's private because they don't see it.

Be consistent with your argument at least.

I will disengage here. Bye!

[–] npdean@lemmy.today -1 points 23 hours ago

How likely is an admin to share something with someone else vs something being already public?

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 21 hours ago

Mods can also see them for their communities iirc.

But it's part of the activity pub protocol and how things work between federated platforms. Some platforms display the votes in public for everyone

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a federated platform. How could voting have been anonymous?

Besides, nothing requires you to vote on posts. If you're not comfortable voting, then don't vote.

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I am okay with votes being public but then it should be made explicitly clear to users.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

The people I trust the least on these platforms are the admins and owners of them. Your voting wasn't anonymous on reddit to those people either.