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Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by o_o@programming.dev to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

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[-] o_o@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Good on you for actually checking and not blindly assuming like me! Hahaha glad to see my assumptions bore out this time.

But yeah, even if lemmy doesn’t aggregate it, it would be possible to set up a bot pretending to be an instance which collects and aggregates vote histories.

this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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