Logic doesn't matter. Literally do anything at all and say "it's because free speech" or "it's to stop cancel culture" and the fan boys will cheer it.

What information is stored/publicly accessible for our accounts?

I don't see it being a problem that your votes are public so long as there's no way to tie the account to you irl. Like, so long as the instance (? I'm very new here I don't really understand the data structure) doesn't store your IP address or anything does it matter?

Like yeah you can see that u/randomdickhead (again, not familiar with naming conventions) upvote some weird shit but so long as that's where the bill ends that user could just make another account aaaaaaaaaaand... No issue?

If I have the wrong idea please let me know I'm genuinely confused about this

"I wish I could upvote this twice" is officially a reality. We should have moved here ages ago!