Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

  • @veganzombehEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I haven’t looked into it at all but I expect IPs are visible to instance admins. That’s pretty typical of any online platform.

    • @consumer451English
      5•1 year ago

      But if I understand this, anyone that makes a lemmy instance can see the IPs of any commenter or voter, on any other federated instance?

      What is the vetting process for federation?

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      Even if lemmy itself doesn’t support it, there are plenty of ways to log visitors ips and correlate that data with lemmy to figure out who the user is.

      EX: Using a revese proxy like cloudflare or nginx, which are both very common.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Even if lemmy itself doesn’t support it, there are plenty of ways to log visitors ips and correlate that data with lemmy to figure out who the user is.

      EX: Using a revese proxy like cloudflare or nginx, which are both very common.