Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy
Saleh@feddit.org 1 day agoThe only one tying your votes to your IP-address or the E-Mail you registered with, is your home instance. This is identical to reddit. If you don’t trust your home instance with your IP-address, use a VPN and/or switch to a different instance.
You are making up an issue for lemmy, which you are willing to accept with reddit.
npdean@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Votes being public is a lemmy specific issue
Saleh@feddit.org 1 day ago
But they aren’t tied to any public information that relates back to you, unless you voluntarily make this information public yourself. You have the exact same “privacy (maybe even physical security)” risk, like when you use reddit. Just that with reddit you have to trust reddit to use the platform, while in the Fediverse you only have to choose one instance to trust.
npdean@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Votes are public here and not on Reddit. Someone who doesn’t like a downvote can go on a witch-hunt, something which is happening to my comments right now.