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

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 hours ago

    I think you missed the point of this - I don’t mind down votes.

    I am just surprised that (some) users will actively use third party software to identify who made them, and then confront them publicly

    • highduc@lemmy.ml
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      1 hour ago

      I don’t think it really matters, just don’t dox yourself and you should be fine.
      Also you can have multiple accounts on different instances and stuff if you want.
      And I don’t think you can tell that much by just upvotes and downvotes. I often times downvote stuff I’ve seen re-posted too much in different instances. I don’t want to see the same thing dozens of times ofc, doesn’t mean I necessarily have an issue with the content.
      Lastly I bet most people don’t use that website anyway. I don’t. What good does it do me to see who downvotes me? If we disagree on something… that’s allowed.