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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: Obligatory RIP my inbox.
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.
listen i just don't want people to see all the furry porn i upvoted
It is just assumed everyone likes it but doesn't talk about it these days.
Either you never interact with any polarising topic, or you have no idea the extent extremists are willing to go to just for the sake of fucking with a perceived enemy.
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.
I do, but fortunately my threat-level at the moment is low - for now. One of the (dubious) honours of living in the third-world is that targeting is still performed through decidedly analog means - but there's no telling how long that will last. I'm not so much worried about the top brass of the goon squad having a file on me - I'm more worried about the psychopath ex-cop and his five drinking buddies living down the street.
And yes... their little plagiarithm's ability to chew through mountains of data and present meaningful patterns out of it is pretty darn impressive. So much for the "But they can't do anything with all that data!" argument.