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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.
I know the amount of votes has to be shared, but I don’t see why other moderators (hell, even mods of the main instance) need to be able to see who voted on what
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