I really wanted to post this on !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net but I'm not trans myself and I didn't want to take up their space.
Basically, the devs of Lemmy are looking to make upvotes public to everyone. Right now, I believe voter identities are known to server admins and mods.
I don't have a strong opinion on this myself, either for or against, as I write this comment, but I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing, frankly as a cishet dude.
But also... I've kinda lost trust in Nutomic making decisions about the software that won't make things worse for trans people since his comments on the Olympics were made public. Dessalines has (so far) at least tolerated Nutomic's transphobia despite whatever prior rhetoric. Frankly, I am suspicious that trans people don't matter to the Lemmy dev team...to be charitable...so I'd really like to hear your thoughts.
IDK basically our votes were nonconsensually used to police behavior by mods back in the @TransComrade69@hexbear.net days and it made me feel real prickly even though I didn't really have anything to fear. I've basically assumed my votes were as good as public this whole time with the assumption mods could on-a-dime choose them to be.
I think HB has an echo chamber problem and I don't think this kind of policy helps that at all.