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.

  • @Chriszz
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    151 year ago

    Yes all the bad Reddit jokes and unoriginal lame attempts at garnering upvotes eg making a stupid joke out of a typo (generally unfunny, rare exceptions), I also choose this guy’s wife, take my upvote you bastard, anything along the lines of wow I hate you for making a pun, I’m not crying you are, I feel personally attacked and god knows the list goes on and on

    Hopefully these things aren’t just replaced but one can hope

    • @AbruptLucidity
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      71 year ago

      Of those ‘jokes’ you listed, “I also choose this guy’s wife” will never be not funny

    • @rookie
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      41 year ago

      Hopefully these things aren’t just replaced but one can hope

      if you listen closely you can hear the beans coming our way