We’ve opened up issues on other services many months ago about retaining user vote privacy, because lemmy users overwhelmingly don’t want their votes snooped on.
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I want to remind everyone that since users overwhelmingly don’t want their votes snooped on (for good reason), we will never add anything like this inside lemmy, lemmy-ui, or jerboa.
While there’s nothing we can do to snoopers making tools like this, it requires a lemmy server admin login.
If you know of servers which are giving admin access to this tool, let us know, so we can add it to our blocklist.
Read the issue above for why. Vote manipulation is a real problem, but making all votes public is not the solution anyone wants. Limiting vote viewing to admins and mods is decided on as the best of both worlds.
Also that tool can only be used by specifically malicious instances whose goal it is to snoop and expose all votes. Those instances can and should be blocked.