Let’s say Dear Leader decides to have the houses of anyone who speaks ill of him (or capitalism) burned down in the night, or their dogs killed, or nefarious files uploaded to their network etc. How easy would that be?
US, of course. I’m actually concerned about this.
More correct to say that Fediverse upvote/downvotes are public.
Whereas on corporate platforms, they are private only to you, the platform, its thousands of ad affiliates, and the government.
Perfectly said, thank you.