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YSK: Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 year ago* by npdean@lemmy.today to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

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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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[–] gazby@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Sir, this is the Fediverse.

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[–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is nowhere explicitly made clear to users that voting is public. It should be made clear if it is going to be

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[–] gazby@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's the other way around here: Everything is public except where it's made clear that it won't be (e.g. email address, password).

For what it's worth, your instance of choice is particularly negligent in regard to informing its users. Compare lemmy.today/legal to lemmy.world/legal, or their respective signup pages for examples. There's little that Lemmy itself or the community at large can do about that 😞

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[–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It needs to be fixed. Every user is having a different user experience during account creation but everyone's information is being federated equally.

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[–] gazby@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They don't seem very active, but you can try reaching your instance admin at https://lemmy.today/u/mrmanager

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[–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 1 point 1 year ago

It is not the problem of my instance per se. It is a problem for all instances because everyone has to agree to instance terms but they kind of are agreeing to all instances' terms.

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[+] dirtydocmark@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I think its a fair assumption that most people make that whatever data which isnt explicitly displayed to a regular user is not public. Having likes be public but hidden is misleading.

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[–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It is made clear because there is an option to see all the votes right next to the like button. Similarly, many sites allow you to go through activity of people you follow.

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[+] dirtydocmark@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

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[–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I can see the number of votes but not who voted. This gives the impression that this information is not available publicly. However, it can be accessed by anyone on third party websites.

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[+] dirtydocmark@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

An EU resident could sue for emotional damages under the GDPR. Or maybe just complain to data protection authorities.

One day it will happen.

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[–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 2 points 1 year ago

I hope it does. Lemmy should not get benefit of the doubt just because it is open source

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