JackbyDev

Could be.

Edit: Even after logging in I see the same view.

I don't view it as a problem in the same way I don't view messages not being end to end encrypted as a problem. I assume admins can see everything.

No, I just don't see how setting up an entire instance being a good argument. As others have suggested you can check it from mbin right now. I couldn't find it though. If that's the case then my opinion changes.

I checked and didn't see them there, but maybe I was looking in the wrong place. Not saying they don't exist there. Fwiw, I wouldn't be replying with what I did if people had said something like that instead. I just find it laughable that people suggest setting up a whole instance as if that's a simple thing. Checking from an mbin instance is a much better argument.

I just tried to see them and I couldn't. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place though. I saw dates but not the actual posts/comments.

I love seeing simple questions and personal achievement posts though.

"All you'd need to do is set up an instance" is waaaayyyyyy more work than "all you need to do is click their profile"

I believe there is precedent for that. I've seen people from HexBear say that because their instance doesn't have down votes they leave comments to criticize people. I get the appeal of wanting people to justify downvotes but this is a casual internet forum. Nobody is going to do that every single time. I'm more concerned it will lead to more simple negative comments like "this is stupid".

You need to explain why because either they're misunderstanding something or the two of you are using different definitions of private. In both scenarios asserting that something isn't private won't do any good.

But this isn't security! No one is claiming that not making vote history visible through the UI is a means to keep things secure!

-1 for rep/karma system. Most people agree that it's good we don't have karma here.

"easily" lol. It's orders of magnitude more difficult than just pressing a button on someone's account page. If people really want to jump through those hoops to see them then that's fine. If that becomes a common occurrence then we should look into making votes more private or more public (so at least those site owners couldn't lie about your votes). But now? I think it's fine.