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It's impossible to federate these without making them public in this way.
The up-votes are also mapped to favourites in Mastodon etc, so that was always public anyway.
You could argue that this should not be hidden in the Lemmy UI, but there are also good reasons to not highlight that much who voted on a post.
Explains why this obvious issue is not brought up by Mastodon lol
I thought votes didn't federate yet anyways... but, yes, it is possible, and i can come up off the top of my head with three or four potential implementations.
Good luck with finding an anonymous system that can not be easily abused.
FHE solves that through and through, as has been documented widely, but that's overengineering when you could just use plain ZKP.
Zero-knowledge voting is here and has been for a while now.
Hey 👋 I know you. Hehe.