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?

  • @UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
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    111 year ago

    You’re kidding surely. That’s actually awful. Any source for this? Would love to read more about it.

    • @IMongoose@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Not from normal upvoting, but vote manipulation like was mentioned above with unidan. Basically using multiple accounts to upvote your own post for visibility.