Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy

• notabot@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Only the admin of your instance can see your IP address, it doesn't get federated to other instances.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They 100% are

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  • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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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    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What?

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Okay so then why fearmonger? You’re thinking that a handful of people in the world having your IP and also opinions is somehow more dangerous than anything else on the Internet?

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• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Only admins of your instance.

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