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Are there any plans to make user up and down votes not viewable publicly? I know for a lot of new adopters this can be a deal breaker.
If someone cares about their privacy that badly why vote at all? I'm sure votes are tracked by the sites on other websites?
On reddit only reddit knows your up and down votes which are never made public unless you check an option in settings. The fediverse is already a target for brigading due to the decentralized nature, allowing bad actors to figure out who to target seems like a terrible idea. Imagine what people like /r/againsthatesubreddits would do with that info.
On the flip side, it also makes brigading easier to detect, so instances can defederate communities that routinely vote in bad faith.
So only group think supported brigading is allowed, even better.
Instances cannot defederate individual communities.
It also doesn't really stop people making an alt and continuing to muck about either.