I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts

I thought that reactions to posts and comments are anonymous and now I don’t really know what to feel about Lemmy any more.

In this case I had downvoted a poster because of its design, but was confronted publicly for being racist because the person assumed that I downvoted the message on the poster

EDIT: changed the title from “How” to “Why” because it broke rule nr 5 about it being a support question

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
    215·
    1 month ago

    i find it concerning because this enables creating a very detailed profile of a users interests, political alignment, medical issues, sexual orientation etc. Even if they never post anything!

    So don’t interact. What you read isn’t stored, but if you interact, it should be public.

    For example I accidentally upvoted a really disgusting NSFW post misclicking on my phone.

    I agree that it’s dumb you don’t have a “my votes” page where you can remove that. But you can go to said post and just remove your vote.