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.

  • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    3 days ago

    And reddit also has a problen where you can use bots to farm upvotes and because you cant see that information means you cant tell if posts are legit or propaganda

      • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 day ago

        No shit, but if you’re getting 1000 upvotes from the same bangledeshi or Russian IP you can a least figure it out, hey its prolly not legit…

        • npdean@lemmy.todayOP
          1·
          12 hours ago

          Thing is votes are federated. if someone makes an instance and farms votes by making bots on same instance, only instance owner has info about IPs. Every other instance thinks the votes are legit.