Which, as an ex MacOS user, is a mindboggling fact it took this long.

Things like comment and vote history being public is just a part of the design of the forum,

Or, to check my understanding, make the structure of the Frediverse actually work, right?

This response isn’t meant to be argumentative, I’m just learning:

Isn’t the fredieverse have the issue of being not very private at all? Aren’t our up votes public? Is our viewing history freely available to those that maintain an instance?