Even if no trackers (which there are) Lemmy is federated so you cannot just delete your stuff and sleep over it. However if you need to be careful, you can solely use Lemmy over Tor. It’s not private but can be anonymous.
I think I recently read that Lemmy devs are working on private upvotes / downvotes (yes even they can be tracked) but it seems it’s tricky with federation.
So, generally Fediverse is not private and cannot be private due to its nature. If you have a threat model, you should use it with Tor.


Reddit’s privately owned so no. :)
If something is on the internet and not encrypted, it’s public not private. Though you can at least be anonymous.