I think you’re looking for !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee

Data privacy (the “right to be forgotten”) I’d say is the main reason. Say you realise that you’ve built up a little to much linkable information about yourself over the years and don’t want it readily available for whoever might want to make use of it.

Oh. If the only thing stopping the votes being public is a label saying pretty please don’t make this public then it does seem very open to abuse.

If you’d only ever interacted with Lemmy and not read up on how ActivityPub works then that’s a reasonable assumption, it’s not like anything (that I’ve noticed!) actually tells you that your votes are public, and they don’t look to be public in the places you’re likely to see!

I just deny most mobile games the network permission, though obviously this doesn’t work if you actually need any internet access (and I don’t think all devices give you control over that permission)

I don’t do modern consoles, do people consider 30fps acceptable?