I recently learned that voting on lemmy is not anonymous. Anyone can get information about who has upvoted and downvoted a post or comment.
In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk. Also, people can target you for your votes.
Sadly, this is something where I would prefer Reddit over Lemmy. Big tech scrapes data from both places anyways, at least Reddit is safe.
I knew from the beginning that you should always expect the worst.
Never gave my name or info unless absolutely necessary.
Even avoided smarthphones until last year, from then it was simply forced upon me since there was no other option for many services.meh, my cell phone number and name is even on the internet - the joy of being a site manager
