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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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[–] frasassi@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Mirror_I_rorrIMG kbin and lemmy are two different clients (imagine Outlook or Apple Mail) for the same service (the threadiverse, or email in the prior example). Pick one, they federate with each other (cross-pollinate).

@o_o

[–] o_o@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmmmm so I see that you pinged me in this post, but I didn’t get a notification for it. Wonder how that works.

[–] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately from what I've seen, that doesn't actually result in a notification

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure you need the server name in the ping for it to work. Kinda like email, lol.

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

Ohh that makes sense. Thank you for explaining.