One additional point that also influenced my personal choice was the political stance of the Lemmy developers (tankies and holocaust deniers).

I think this post eases my concerns. As long as they aren’t silencing or influencing conversations in the code, what does it matter? And you’re right, the open source nature of it makes it even less of an issue.

I think that voting on kbin is private now, by the way.

No, click on the “more” button under each post -> activity -> favorites tab.