Well this is a Hotznplotzn post, which means OP doesn't give a damn about data collection by American companies... or anything, really, besides reminding us China Bad
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PieFed has a way to keep votes (more) private. From 11 months ago:
There was a widely held belief that votes should be private yet it was repeatedly pointed out that a quick visit to an Mbin instance was enough to see all the upvotes and that Lemmy admins already have a quick and easy UI for upvotes and downvotes (with predictable results).
Vote privacy may be especially important because it's really easy for a malicious server to get set up, unbeknownst to anybody else, and just pull vote data that other servers freely provide.
I gotta say, knowing it's a bit (but based on IRL testing) makes it even better. It's like SomethingAwful met Mr Robot
Looks like the original post disappeared.
Right before it was, OP claimed in a comment that part of their post was a joke. Part of me hopes this is an exercise in technically correct creative writing, and based on their account...
To be fair, the article itself recommends it.