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.
whats the problem with it . you did not liked it you downvoted . its not like they can ban your account
Someone has been banned for downvoting a single post.
I was targeted by someone for how I voted. They follow me around and harrass me.
Unemployment on peak bruh and following on non centralised niche social media is diabolical