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
      133·
      8 hours 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

      • BlueKey@fedia.io
        5·
        7 hours ago

        Maybe we should convey to new users more strongly that ActivityPub software “is like a large open place, where you can publish what you want (minus moderated content) and everyone has the ability to see everything you did”.