I dsiagree that transparent upvotes are in issue. In fact i think it’s a powerful feature for community to self correct and resist astro turfing.

On reddit votes have become meaningless because they are not 1 person == 1 vote and its completely astroturfed. You can literally got to buyredditvotes dot com (not real but real ones are very close just google it) and stuff any post with votes and nobody will ever know.

Transparent interactions are key for community health even if behind anonymous nicknames. So all interactions should be transparent.

My only issue is that many lemmy instances are blocking popular VPN services which is very dangerous. I understand the bot argument but user safety suffers hard here.