Different tool, different purpose.
Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Lemmy is already a privacy nightmare, in some way. There was a comment showing the screengrab of those peiple who upvoted and downvoted a post. Basically, if you self-host an instance, you’ll have access to these. This can easily be weaponized by certain organizations that want to create profiling of lemmy users, e.g NSA and Intelligence agencies.
recapitated@lemmy.world 2 months ago
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
If you’re afraid of triple letter agencies you probably shouldn’t engage in social media at all.
The privacy concerns are about coercion from the user base. The bar to spin up a private instance to get to the voting data is far too high for 99% of the users.