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

  • Andy_R@feddit.uk
    1·
    1 day ago

    Yes.

    I don’t know of any clients that publicly show it, but the information is sent out as a json that can be read by anyone setup to receive them.

    • utopiah@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 hours ago

      Thanks for the clarification but is it for non-local DMs only or even local DMs and if so why?