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.

    • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
      501·
      3 days ago

      Only the admin of your instance can see your IP address, it doesn’t get federated to other instances.

      • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
        227·
        3 days ago

        I am not worried about big tech because they scrape everything anyways. I am more worried about the witchhunt and potential admin abuse.

        And even this does not happen, it should be made clear that votes are public

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
          17·
          3 days ago

          Why are you worried about admin abuse? If you are worried that your admin will abuse you, you should switch to an instance you trust more.

            • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
              2·
              1 day ago

              Reputation, word of mouth, history, etc. Same way you decide anything else you consume.

              How do you pick where you go shopping? You pick the closest one. Then if it turns out to be bad, you go elsewhere.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      30·
      3 days ago

      Okay so then why fearmonger? You’re thinking that a handful of people in the world having your IP and also opinions is somehow more dangerous than anything else on the Internet?