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
      23·
      8 days ago

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

      • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
        16·
        8 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

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      13·
      8 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?