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

  • hesh@quokk.auEnglish
    12·
    3 hours ago

    Your votes on reddit or facebook are profiled and sold to every data broker on the planet.

    Making them public just removes the illusion that they are private in the first place

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 hours ago

      But they are not public. You need third party websites or special privileges to see them.

      For true transparency there should be a list with voting interaction on each post and comment