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Its like sitting near a window basically, people on the sidewalk are gonna have trouble seeing you with just their eyes (i mean like most sidewalks are quite far away to the window because of front yards) but anyone could get a camera with zoom lens and see your face.

In my opinion this isn’t that big of a problem since it’s fairly hard to look at and discern

You are like one LLM prompt away from a website that makes it fairly easy to look at and discern so that’s not really a valid argument

Personally, I don’t care too much about my votes being public. I vote very thoughtfully and try to upvote posts and comments that add to the community and I downvote misinformation.

But, I think people should be able to choose. I do think there are many valid reason for them to be private.

Me personally I would say that private votes are better if possible. But you should be able to filter when you're logged in what you upvoted and downvoted. That's how I would like it ideally.

They are not, it's akin to shouting in the rain. Most people will be inside not getting wet, but there people that either like the rain, or get paid to stand in it

The lemmy vote viewer is quite limited but I suspect that there are a few servers that have spun their own DB queries and charting:

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Stand by your vote.

On a privacy scale of 1 to 100: 2.

Mods can see it, all someone has to do is spin up a private instance and they can see it too, plus there's Lemvotes. It's kinda neat like I can see that I upvoted 8,052 posts and downvoted 17 from that account, or from this account I upvoted 15,327 comments and downvoted 86.

Some instances though - like PieFed.social - have defederated from Lemvotes, so anyone's vote offered to a community on that instance will not be counted by Lemvotes. But ofc that's merely one of many tools for me to find the data, whereas if someone spins up their own instance then they - or a community mod - can still see it by other means.

The reason I went into all this detail is bc if is relevant to your purpose that not everyone on the Threadiverse shares the same view about vote privacy. Some instances will defederate from yours in an attempt to retain control over the visibility of votes from their own. So perhaps you can devise some mechanism to allow admins the choice to opt-out, without having to defederate from your entire instance wholesale?

I vote by using a whiteboard marker on my monitor, that way no one can steal my lucky charms.

Zero. Use this site with a VPN and assume any data you put on here is being harvested.

☑️ No

✅ Yes

No idea. I don't like public voting and only do it on rare occasions. I was doing it a lot to get rid of things from my feed but rimu put in a read button so now Im back to almost never doing it.

I thought there was a user search that showed you what they upvoted or downvoted on. To me that could be abused by a party like the US border agents, or ads to check what type of things you've marked as a yay or nay