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I think the point is for the votes to be federated, the instance has to know who has actually voted. The issue being that information is then on the instance the post is hosting, and due to how posts propagate, there's nothing stopping another instance putting who voted on what front and center, and just pulling that data from the host instance.
Ah, I see the point there. That a new instance with a different UI could put them up.
I'm certainly no tech expert, but if it's about the API, then how did third-party Reddit apps work with it? The votes definitely synced between different versions of Reddit, could a third-party Reddit app have been made that showed votes publicly? If not, what was the system behind that, and could it work here? Again, no idea, there may be a very good reason why what I'm thinking wouldn't work, but I dunno what it would be.
I'm far from an expert on this sort of thing, but I would wager that the only voting data available through Reddit's API is the current number of up and downvotes, the overall vote score, and whether the account requesting the information has up or down voted, for any given post / comment.
It can do that because the data is centralised, and every account exists in one place, whereas federation has to say "[email protected] upvoted this comment, and so did [email protected]", because there's nowhere to store that data centrally, other than the post itself.