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

    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Happened to a few times to me. Usually tankies criticizing why I downvoted Russian propaganda in unrelated topics.

      Downvote, block and move on

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
      14·
      3 days ago

      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.