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  • Yes, votes being public is probably my biggest gripe with Lemmy.

    It enables a very detailed dragnet of user profile data. There is nothing public at the moment, but I expect it’s a matter of time before organizations start building detailed user profiles that consider how users vote each post and comment to build psychoanalytical profiles. In addition to the user’s public posts and comments it would make for a highly privacy-invasive dataset.

    People don’t care much yet because Lemmy is small still and under the radar, but with the data there for the taking its a matter of time.