I recently learned that voting on lemmy is not anonymous. Anyone can get information about who has upvoted and downvoted a post or comment.
In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk. Also, people can target you for your votes.
Sadly, this is something where I would prefer Reddit over Lemmy. Big tech scrapes data from both places anyways, at least Reddit is safe.
I’m not a jackass with downvotes, so I’m not worried.
What do you mean?
Since he doesn’t have anything to hide, he doesn’t have anything to fear
I don’t use downvotes unless someone is factually wrong in a big way, posts something homophobic / racist / etc, or acts rude without cause and the like. Some people downvote every comment they disagree with. I don’t think that’s how downvotes ought to be used. Nor do I brigade.