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.

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[–] 98 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Why are you saying IP addresses are publicly shown here and why is (almost) no one correcting you? That would've been an enormous privacy risk that would've required intentionally fucking users over. Just doesn't even make sense to write what you did about IP addresses. Seems like you're just hoping to cause some panic.

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  • [+] [S] -39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Admins can get them. It is not available to everyone.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Who says that Reddit isn't selling upvote/downvote and IP info? Or sharing with govts?

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  • [+] [S] -25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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