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

  • jj4211@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I just think it should be more obviously transparent, rather than the UI pretending it has no attribution.

    I recall some proposal about adding the info to the UI and objections due to privacy concerns, which is just pretending something is private.