Your votes are as public as your posts. I see you have no problem posting so I don’t understand what the issue is.
Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?
sudo42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
1 I had assumed votes were private 2 If I don’t hear soon that votes are private, I’ll simply stop participating and return to lurking. I’ll eventually just wander off to the next thing that doesn’t expose my votes to potential bots and/or abusive actors.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Right? Big whoop, votes are public. Oh no, people might find out I’m an an-com from my voting patterns, instead of from my comments
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 months ago
The issue is that currently someone can behave as a shithead via voting, even if not comments, with little fear of reprisal or even discovery.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How does one “behave as a shithead via voting”? If someone decided to waste their time following me around Lemmy and down voting my posts it’s not going to do very much.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think most users assume votes are private and most will have a similar reaction to learning about this unintuitive negative feature of anything built on ActivityPub, including Lemmy.
Eximius@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think it is worth reading the actual discussion on github. Having votes public and having them visibly public on the web interface has compelling reasons. Namely enshittification hardening.