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.
Why?
If I know the things you post/vote about and I know your general location (from IP), I can use that along with other metrics from other usage of your IP (on other websites) to get a fairly accurate location and profile of who you are. One slip up in a comment or a post and I can probably know your name and address.
This is assuming someone is specifically targeting you. But as tech advances, it might already be possible for the average person to do this on a large number of people. Big tech does it already.
Post or vote? As you appear to be specifically butthurt about people being able to see how you vote? Or perhaps you would like your posts to be anonymous as well?
You don’t.
You don’t.
You don’t.
Yeah, if I put in my name and address when commenting 🙄
Fuck, I’ve been on the internet from the mid 90’s - with very few handles…
Removed by mod
meh, my cell phone number and name is even on the internet - the joy of being a site manager
Admins can have IPs. What do you mean “you don’t”?
Every IP has a geolocation.
You underestimate how much information we leak through just using the Internet.
Precisely what I said. You don’t. Admins of your instance can - you know, like Reddit admins.
Yes, downvoting is definitely “information leaking”.
Look, you don’t like that anyone could see how you voted, I get it. That’s your view and it is fine. But stop making it a privacy issue as it isn’t one.