this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2024
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They can't be completely private because instances have to share how many upvotes each post has. That's a limitation of the fediverse, since everything is spread across many independent systems, data has to be exchanged across them.
As of now, they're semi-private because end users can't easily see who voted on a post/comment unless they manage an instance themselves.
So votes are not easily manipulated?
If they did that, anyone could spin up an instance and start just fabricating votes and there'd be no way to know