I also don't like votes being public, but I understand that the Fediverse just isn't built for that kind of privacy. It definitely makes me more hesitant to engage though. I can imagine that examining a user's voting patterns could reveal a lot of potentially sensitive information about them, especially if the user wasn't aware votes are public. Sometimes I see posts that are very relevant to something real-life or local that's going on with me, but I wouldn't want any random user to make the connection, so I just don't engage.

I reread my favs about once a year. Sometimes the point you're at in life just makes a book hit completely different. I also get a rush of nostalgia from revisiting books that can be pretty pleasant.