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 would like if vote counts weren’t shown until after you voted, so it doesn’t influence your opinion
You can vote and change your vote. It would be a useless feature.
People are less likely to change their vote afterwards than they are influenced before voting. It’s not meaningless. An opinion would form without first.
The “Reddit” way is to allow votes to be hidden for some length of time (often a few hours, but I think up to 1 day).