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Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (31 children)

From a technical standpoint, it's not different from Reddit. The only difference here is that normal people can host their own instances, whereas Reddit is only hosted by the company and they can keep it under wraps.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

In fact, Reddit has suspended people for upvoting before.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

True, but in Unidan's defense, it was a jackdaw, not a crow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We need Unidan back now more than ever 🤗🐦‍⬛

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Multidan.

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