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

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    42·
    2 months ago

    I just block anyone who confronts me about why I voted a certain way. “Because I felt like it, fuck off cunt” is my go-to justification.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    101·
    2 months ago

    I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts

    Which community/instance did this? I’d like to block it.

  • Grimy@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    It’s to guard against bot accounts. I’d much rather have that instead of the clearly manipulated comment sections on Reddit. The pro-israel posting and down voting went away almost overnight when we got broader access and a few mods got called out about it. Go look at a comment section about it that hits all on Reddit, there’s clearly artificial voting going on.

    It’s still not that hard to mess around but I’ll take what I can get, and I guess it does keep the racists away, even if it’s sometimes a false positive like in your case.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      2 months ago

      I agree that it is good with transparency, but then this should also be freely available on the Lemmy platform, and even the clients, in the same way as modlogs list what is going on.

      I knew that admins could somehow go into the database and check who has done what, but I assumed that this was only the admin, and maybe even that the info was encrypted. It’s alright with me that it’s not, but then why not display it on each post and comment, with a list of interactions to it.

      In this case, it’s this post:
      https://quokk.au/comment/3048088

      Although, the comment where people were being called out, may have been removed (not sure if it’s because I have blocked the user, or they have blocked me)

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I fully agree it should be transparent instead of a kind of trick you learn eventually. Won’t happen anytime soon though, the Lemmy devs are against the notion. They actually block lemvotes on their instance which is a bit ironic because they insta ban people for down voting a lot from what I understand.

  • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    If you want to maintain some sort of privacy when voting on any platform in the Fediverse:
    Create an alt account, do not make any posts/comments with it, only use it for voting.

    Otherwise we would need an instance that generates a bunch of voting accounts. Then, when you vote on something, the instance randomly assigns that vote to one of their voting accounts and sends out that vote information to other instances. Then only the Admins of your home instance would be able to view your voting history.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      81·
      2 months ago

      It’s also petty… But knowing that this is so easy to identify people behind vote activity fundamentally changes how I feel about Lemmy

  • utopiah@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    The lesson here is that your assumption about how the system works is wrong.

    That means can mean 1 important thing :

    • it was not explained clearly enough for you during your onboarding.

    Consequently I suggest you recall when you started using Lemmy, how you heard about it, how you then understood how it work and thus potentially update the documentation (or whatever you relied on then) accordingly so that others don’t make the same mistake.