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Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] atocci@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're definitely not anonymous, and Kbin actually does have the UI to show who is upvoting and downvoting any post if you view it on there.

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

I love it. I've already used that feature to block someone who was stalking my posts and downvoting them. Then I got curious and checked out a bunch of posts on the front page that had downvotes but didnt really warrant them. I found there were about 5 accounts who were heavy downvoters for apparently no reason. They also got blocked.

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

I agree, I think it's useful! I also blocked a person yesterday who was downvote stalking me, they clearly didn't want to see the things I was posting anyway.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone show me how to find this? I can't figure it out.

Also curious if it's possible to see who is subscribed to a magazine or who is following me.

[–] BasicWhiteGirl@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

More > activity > reduces for Kbin.

Scroll to the bottom of the thread and find reduces for the thread.