Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by o_o@programming.dev to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 1 points 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.

this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023

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