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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?
They're private in the sense that there isn't a corporation stealing your data without your knowledge, selling it without your consent, whoring you out for ads against your will, and/or making your experience shittier to manipulate you into buying their paid features. These alternatives offer a much more pure experience for the typical user. Things like comment and vote history being public is just a part of the design of the forum, they're not tools to farm your data.
Or, to check my understanding, make the structure of the Frediverse actually work, right?
Lemmy is basically just a decentralized clone of reddit. A public profile containing comments, posts, upvotes, and the like are considered an integral part of the Reddit experience. I personally don't like it as a feature, but that's why it exists.