at least Reddit is safe.

Lmao, what!? Reddit tries their best to know exactly who you are, where you live, your education, where you work, etc... And then they sell that data to anyone.

A lot of people here still refuse to understand that Lemmy, as it currently exists, is a privacy nightmare, and the voting thing is just the top of the iceberg. There are several de-anonymization attacks possible involving dynamically serving different content to different users. This, combined with the public voting makes it possible that someone can dox an account and expose a lot more information than other forums where that information is more private.

Public votes also open the fediverse up to much worse astroturfing IMO. It's incredible feedback for bots and trolls to see exactly who is interacting with their posts and comments. It's frustrating that a bunch of people here have convinced themselves of the opposite, and insist that public voting is the only way to combat brigades and trolls, which is an incredibly shortsighted stance which doesn't scale nearly as well as it does in the other direction.

I was unaware that it was unclear to anyone but children and the intellectually behind that anything you do on the Internet is traceable to you without significant countermeasures.

I don't think worrying about upvote is necessary im just saying

I’ll downvote everyone here if I damn well please it!!!

Freedom is a luxury and anonymity is a crime. After all, how can any slave think to hide his intentions from his masters?

Why is public voting a massive privacy and physical threat but public posting and commenting is not?

If you're an instance admin, for any post, you can just click "view votes" and see everything tied to usernames, even outside your own instance. Moderators can too, but it's restricted to the communities they moderate.

Sir, this is the Fediverse.

Why are you saying IP addresses are publicly shown here and why is (almost) no one correcting you? That would've been an enormous privacy risk that would've required intentionally fucking users over. Just doesn't even make sense to write what you did about IP addresses. Seems like you're just hoping to cause some panic.

The IP address thing is not real, though

Just choose a nickname that is random word+4 random digits and don't reuse it on other services

I try not to downvote without commenting so they should be aware

Don't tell anyone, but your posts and comments are also public.

Are you sure about that? Reddit is a fucking cesspool.

I like piefed because it lets you see at a glance if someone is a serial downvoter. On each piefed user profile is a thing called “attitude” and it’s a ratio of your upvotes vs downvotes. ~~100% means the person doesn’t downvote people. 50% means they downvote and upvote equally. 0% is only downvotes.~~ Edit: I saw someone today with negative % so it must be 100% is all upvotes. 0% is half upvotes half downvotes. -100% is all downvotes.

It shows up for people outside piefed too so i see you too lemmy angry people.

In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk. Also, people can target you for your votes.

No.

Russia really should just leave Ukraine, though. (Sorry, I just saw the context for this a few minutes ago and can't help myself).