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.

  • @npdean@lemmy.todayOP
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    -52 days ago

    I agree that they track and are shit at privacy. I specifically find it safer because only the company can track me and not the users.

    • This is a decent point. Ignore the inane downvotes you’re getting for simply expressing your opinion in a polite and good-faith manner.

      • @npdean@lemmy.todayOP
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        -21 day ago

        Yeah, I am ignoring the downvotes for the most part. It is so amusing that people will disregard everything a person has to say because they have one opinion that they don’t like.

        • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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          101 day ago

          It’s expressed incredibly poorly. The title is true, one absolutely should be aware of what information is public.

          You’re a fool to trust Reddit with it more than particular instance admins.

            • Jyek
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              58 hours ago

              You say that like there are not state actors on Reddit. In fact, that canary died a decade or more ago on Reddit. There are astroturfing campaigns from governments all over reddit literally daily.

    • A Wild Mimic appears!
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      151 day ago

      you know that data is being sold to hundreds of third parties, right? I`m pretty sure that more people get access to that data than there are lemmy users. but you do you, mate