Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…
What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.
Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.
I have no problem with admins seeing what I upvote or downvote. Hell, I have no problem with everybody seeing what I upvote or downvote.
Hear hear. Simply allow identification of all votes for all users. Problem solved via greater transparency.
If you have serious privacy concerns, you really shouldn’t be here in the first place, this is public social media and should already be anathema to you.
I do have privacy concerns… I live in a country where being a dissident can very easily result in “corrective violence.” It’s just that I already make my opinion public against the wishes of the status quo - upvotes and downvotes is merely a part of that.
I hope you are taking profound privacy precautions. People are not as difficult to predict, and thus identify, as we think. While we cannot do it ourselves, our AI tools very much can, from even the most innocuous data.