this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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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[–] vriska@l.60228.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the other hand, I don't really trust Reddit with my upvotes/downvotes all that much more than random users, so I already refrain from voting on content I wouldn't want to be associated with....

Of course, Reddit can still see what posts I view, while that isn't the case for Lemmy (at least since I self-host an instance).

[–] Geometric7792@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't the other instances see what you saw via federation? Or does a self hosted lemmy instance federate all comments from all threads once it knows about a server?

[–] vriska@l.60228.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Or does a self hosted lemmy instance federate all comments from all threads once it knows about a server?

Only in subscribed communities, but yes.