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?

  • Seraph@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t part of the reason for anonymous voting and even “blurred” voting so accounts that were shadowbanned wouldn’t know it and go create a new bot account to spam more?

    • blivet@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      If I remember correctly, another reason was so that bots wouldn’t get usable feedback from voting.