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.

  • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Admins can have IPs. What do you mean “you don’t”?

    Precisely what I said. You don’t. Admins of your instance can - you know, like Reddit admins.

    You underestimate how much information we leak through just using the Internet.

    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.