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

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Voting in itself isn’t necessarily the issue. It’s users being able to see those scores that feeds the echo chamber.

    To be clear, most users can’t easily see votes. Only community moderators can quickly access vote data within communities they moderate - and instance admins can see all votes. Yes, people /can/ go to lemvotes, but it’s often just not worth it.

    I think it being transparent in this way is good for the fediverse.

    • emb@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I think in this case they just mean the total count and score, not who voted what. For that, I think most clients readily display it. I see it on both the desktop website and in Voyager.