Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous - eviltoast

Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

  • WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    but with federation, there’s nothing stopping an instance from simply releasing all users’ voting history to be public.

    Which kbin.social does.