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

  • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
    52·
    2 hours ago

    So you can block them. Karma points on the fediverse practically mean nothing as it does not borrow the functionality as they would on Reddit where if you’re downvoted enough times, you will be prevented from posting as frequently. I guess some people, 3 years later, did not get the memo still when they think it’s so rebellious and cool to parade downvotes on someone. It just makes you look petty and childish, really.