Besides it's a very important question for our privacy, I suspect some of my comments getting downvoted at set periods of time from other accounts. I don't understand how the fediverse work and what I'm asking is who has vote logs? Who I can ask, if a bot, like on reddit, got dedicated to downvote every post from one user. How to avoid vote brigading on here? Can it be automated?
I'm not pissed and I do know I post literal shit sometimes. It's just I'm wondering, if our fedieverse have machanics against that.
There's already examples of social networks that have upvotes and downvotes public. Besides kbin.social, which isn't the most popular, there are some that have existed for a long time outside of the English speaking world, like meneane.net
Admins and instance owners will be seeing that information, and given how badly some of them behave without any remorse, I don't see any reason why that privilege shouldn't just be made accessible for all. Otherwise you have no way to judge downvotes, which just essentially makes them useless except for current thread sorting.
See who makes it, and you can generally get a sense if they are making a downvote honestly, just circlejerking it, or a high likelihood of an alt because a dead zombie account that hasn't made a comment in forever suddenly decides to downvote in a deeply nested debate. In my experience, there is a high correlation of people who want anonymous downvotes and people who don't want to be called out for their shit, even when they are admins who are constantly peeking to see who's downvoting them.
It's clearly not the doomsday that the naysayers say allowing it will be.