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

  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    41·
    3 hours ago

    So in a niche community we are now promoting that people don’t interact with said community if they care about their privacy at all?

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Not at all. I’m saying you should interact and stand behind your interactions.

      For example, you downvoted my post, which is fine. You also replied, which is also fine. Why is it bad that one isn’t on your profile (but it is public) and the other is openly visible in a list on your profile?

      Interactions are by default public, otherwise there’s no point to interacting. I’d go one further and say that having the voting information public but not visible by default is by far the worst option.