As a lowly user, I appreciate these timely simulated phishing attempts, and do not understand the popular disgust. I know there were often articles in 2020 about users being upset that their employer would dare to issue simulated COVID relief phishing attempts and the like. But that was likely the biggest phishing threat at the time, and the security team needed to make sure that users were prepared and that the scam was in their mind in case a real one slipped through.

The culture of things that are not inherently political?

The comments below started me on a trail that led me to a relevant comment from a Lemmy dev:

I want to remind everyone that since users overwhelmingly don’t want their votes snooped on (for good reason), we will never add anything like this inside lemmy, lemmy-ui, or jerboa.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/18256302

But it’s trivial to use an external tool to see who voted on what regardless of whose account it is

Is there a tool made for this out there? As far as I’m aware, the simplest way for the average user to do that is to run their own instance and then manually query its database directly, which is far from trivial.