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.

  • @[email protected]English
    43•1 year ago

    Reddit always had this too though. In every app I used there was an “up voted” and “down voted” tab when I would look at someone’s profile

    Maybe it was an api thing?

    • @zeppoEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      It’s an option in reddit settings to make your votes public or not. Of course site admins could always see them if desired, buts that’s a much more limited group than whoever the fuck starts a Lemmy instance.

    • @sauerkrausEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      That wasn’t publicly accessible. You could keep it between you and the admins.