Lemvotes isn’t foolproof, and just because something isn’t complete doesn’t mean it doesn’t have it. Although Lemvotes is another good example of how baseless the “voting privacy” argument is.

If I propose Mbin, it’s because between Lemmy and Piefed it has the most voting transparency, it doesn’t have to be perfect. I’d rather advertise instances that move towards it than those that move away with it due to ridiculous concepts like “voting privacy”.

To put it in the words that can illustrate the ideological hypocrisy surrounding it better, it is essentially a tool of the “bourgeois” to obfuscate general access to the “proletariat” of the user base. People have enough power to pseudonymize their votes to anonymous accounts, so it is a testament of insecurity to try to use dark patterns to hide access to it when it is readily accessible through sites like lemvotes to even the most hostile of parties. The sky hasn’t come down because these sites exist, and rather than the issue being the small minority of the people who might abuse them, I suspect it might be due to the insecurities of the people who downvote frequently or purposefully.