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
I just block anyone who confronts me about why I voted a certain way. “Because I felt like it, fuck off cunt” is my go-to justification.
I like your style
Does that happen?
Happened to a few times to me. Usually tankies criticizing why I downvoted Russian propaganda in unrelated topics.
Downvote, block and move on
I crashed out once and DMd someone who had downvoted a couple of my comments because I overreacted and thought I was being targeted. I’m not a particularly stable individual.
Felt terrible, they were a good sport about it though.
I just blocked my votes from federating. it’s nobody’s business what I upvote.
That just means you’re not voting …
I’m not explaining this to somebody again.
If your votes don’t federate then they have no effect other than you seeing the arrow light up.
Everyone from my instance sees my votes. Which are the people who matter to me. Federate means between instances. A fair portion of our communities are similar, only allowing downvotes from members of trusted instances, which in our case are dbzer0 and quokk.au. I believe we also opted out of Lemvotes as well.