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

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Yeh it’s a heated topic and the design of the poster is likely far from most people’s mind. I personally as with others try not to downvote…I just leave the odd sarcastic comment instead like a true elder of the internet.

    There’s plenty of manga to downvote if you are feeling a bit trigger finger frustrated. 🤣