The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.
Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I’m sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.
With all of our comments and VOTES out in the open, everyone should definitely have the ability to protect their identity as well as possible. Of course, your instance knows your IP and could in theory ID you by sharing that info with other websites you’ve visited that actually have PII on you.