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In response to your #3 point - this is absolute fucking ridiculous. This type of bullshit will kill Lemmy.
Votes being public is one of my main turn offs of Lemmy. Anyone can host their own instance that federates with everyone and peek inside the database and see everything you've ever up voted or downvoted. I have personally done this just to confirm my suspicions that it is possible. I don't vote on a lot of things I otherwise would because I don't want people making assumptions about me. For example, if I see a copy/paste bot spamming a pro trans comment, even though I agree with the message, I might want to downvote because it is a spam bot. But I'm afraid that if someone sees that comment in a list of my downvotes without any context, they will incorrectly think I'm transphobic.
Votes being public is news to me. But regardless, how does anyone even do it? The apps and web uis I have seen don't show that anywhere so do you think people are querying the API directly just for such a weird use case? I don't find that likely.
Yes, as the other person said, you need to be an admin or mod. As an admin, you have raw database access. I crafted an SQL query using a couple of joins of I think 3 tables, and I was able to provide a comment or post ID, and it would return a list of people who have upvoted or downvoted it.
The problem is though that anyone can be an admin. You could set up your own instance and do this if you want.