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Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?
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The current trust model already relies on a user's home instance accurately reporting user activity and not injecting fake activity. Hiding real user votes behind pseudonymous tokens doesn't change that at all.
As far as I can tell, the activity ranking algorithms don't actually differentiate between up and down votes anyway. All votes are considered engagement.