▲ 436 ▼ YSK: Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy (lemmy.today) submitted 1 year ago* by npdean@lemmy.today to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world 369 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child) No, downvotes are more important than upvotes permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) I legitimately don't even know why someone might think this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Disagreements are more important than agreements, otherwise it just forms echo chambers permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago You can disagree without a downvote option. It's more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) I legitimately don't even know why someone might think this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Disagreements are more important than agreements, otherwise it just forms echo chambers permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago You can disagree without a downvote option. It's more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] npdean@lemmy.today [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Disagreements are more important than agreements, otherwise it just forms echo chambers permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago You can disagree without a downvote option. It's more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago You can disagree without a downvote option. It's more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway. permalink fedilink source parent