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.

  • @ImOnLemmyWowEnglish
    24•1 year ago

    I’m sure that someone will dox themselves, then somewhere else mention where they work. Post on some gonewild pages (is that a thing here) and then make a poorly worded opinion on a sensitive subject and lose their job. Of course Internet hygiene is important and you shouldn’t dox yourself but after several years you’ll slip up and these things will bite you .

    • @QuadratureSurferEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Doesn’t have to be major slip ups. Just little tidbits over time on a comment here, a post there, and the aggregation of that data can really narrow the results down.