If you're an instance admin, for any post, you can just click "view votes" and see everything tied to usernames, even outside your own instance. Moderators can too, but it's restricted to the communities they moderate.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
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The IP address thing is not real, though
Just choose a nickname that is random word+4 random digits and don't reuse it on other services
This is the way. Randomise your usernames and use a password manager to keep track of them.
Are you sure about that? Reddit is a fucking cesspool.
Sir, this is the Fediverse.
It is nowhere explicitly made clear to users that voting is public. It should be made clear if it is going to be
It's the other way around here: Everything is public except where it's made clear that it won't be (e.g. email address, password).
For what it's worth, your instance of choice is particularly negligent in regard to informing its users. Compare lemmy.today/legal to lemmy.world/legal, or their respective signup pages for examples. There's little that Lemmy itself or the community at large can do about that 😞
In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk. Also, people can target you for your votes.
No.
Seems like a good thing to me. Should be a better known feature.
How would I go about seeing this information for myself?
lemvotes.org
This always givea me a 404
your instance may have opted out.
Or just buggy results.
this is why i vote at random, like two-face doing his quarter thing
I did this last night putting my son to bed, said heads you go to bed, tails we stay up. Jokes on him though, double heads. And he fell for it, what a sucker. Hope it works when he's not four, or I at least don't need to do it.
you're raising a future supervillain
Kinda sounds like you just dislike accountability
Russia really should just leave Ukraine, though. (Sorry, I just saw the context for this a few minutes ago and can't help myself).
Dont care who knows but I too agree with this.
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If you ever get banned for the way you vote then abandon that reddit space.
What do you mean by Reddit space?
If you live in certain fascist countries and government officials link your identity and account, suddenly they can confirm if you are undesirable
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.
I would never downvote cereal.
Unless it was grape nuts. That shit is like eating gravel.
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An entire thread of people missing the point 🙄
I have to assume it was the same case on Reddit, except it was only info available privately, to whomever. Now, every psychopath and their mother can find people who disagree quietly and hunt them down!
Team Periwinkle ftw.
I remember learning about this and not giving a fuck. I vote stuff on occasion, but generally don't vote or care about the votes on my comment.
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Why are you saying IP addresses are publicly shown here and why is (almost) no one correcting you? That would've been an enormous privacy risk that would've required intentionally fucking users over. Just doesn't even make sense to write what you did about IP addresses. Seems like you're just hoping to cause some panic.
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Why is public voting a massive privacy and physical threat but public posting and commenting is not?
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In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk.
Your IP would only be seen by your instance (which is inevitable, you gotta connect to it after all). But there's no way for anyone else to look up your IP.
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