Fediverse

I can see that in some circumstances, votes might need to be public due to protocol, otherwise public votes have their own uses, and so are private ones.

~~Sill waiting for someone to show me how to see what someone up votes and down votes on Lemmy through a pre-existing Mbin or Mastodon instance. That's really been the only convincing argument to make them public that I've heard. (That convinces me, I mean.) But nobody has shown it is possible through fedia.io for example. I tried but couldn't see it, but it's possible I was looking in the wrong place.~~

It's on mbin's post/comment under more > activity. Not under a user's profile.

No, it would encourage irresponsibility which already seems a major issue with lemmy.

if I leave it there. It’s because it’s not foul enough to warrant a ban but I don’t want to press a little green check box explicitly endorsing its existence. I have been here the whole time :/ Yal couped me

If that were to happen, the receiving end wouldn't know who sent which vote, thus making spamming extremely easy.

Make the author of the comment/post see who voted for them.

No, but they should be public to everyone, and not hidden unless you jump through hoops.