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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

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts

Which community/instance did this? I'd like to block it.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] subignition@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago

not surprising that it's Deceptichum

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

(trying something: https://lemmyverse.link/quokk.au/comment/3048088 )

edit: not convinced, I still don't know how to properly share a link of a post or comment in a way that all instances open it on their own

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

also:

hey @whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works I see you downvoted my comment, care to share your opinion??

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, that's a common mistake, you have to file it under "humour" or it won't be properly processed.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Dean Browning moment

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

No, fuucckk yoouuuuu!!!

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

You can't, at least not yet. The only cross instance linkable is with communities. (i.e. !asklemmy@lemmy.world)

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Seems to work fine in Voyager, opens in my home instance. But presumably that's a feature of Voyager.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not at all surprised who the OP here was.