I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts

I thought that reactions to posts and comments are anonymous and now I don’t really know what to feel about Lemmy any more.

In this case I had downvoted a poster because of its design, but was confronted publicly for being racist because the person assumed that I downvoted the message on the poster

EDIT: changed the title from “How” to “Why” because it broke rule nr 5 about it being a support question

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Isn’t PieFed explicitly written to make votes anonymous again? Or am I thinking of something else?

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Another commenter stated (its a little ways down the thread) they abandoned that plan due to complexity. (and other instance admins getting mad they couldnt see votes)

      They ended up moving to a system where you now decide if you want your votes to federate outside the instance or not.