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Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by o_o@programming.dev to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

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[–] corytheboyd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I didn’t know, that’s awesome! Downvote shouldn’t be the “fuck you I disagree” button, save that garbage for Twitter and Reddit. Downvote is there for democratically killing malevolent bullshit. Expose the names!

[–] MagicalVagina@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In term of privacy this is pretty bad though. From the upvotes/downvotes activity you can very easily build a whole graph of stuff you like/dislike. For advertisers that's juicy data.

[–] withersailor@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago

Or upvote/downvote randomly, or, on a lot of stuff so the interest pool is huge. I'm upvote stuff I see just to participate and give the poster a "someone seen this post" feel good high.

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