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
    1•1 year ago

    And yet, that was not due to the likes and dislikes being visible but your comment. I still don’t see the difference in potential of harassment due to likes being visible versus comments.

    I have a 7 year old Reddit account with 38k karma and I was never pursued or harrassed by anyone (a part from some heated exchanges in comments which I abandoned once I grew tired of them).

    • @FunkyDuckEnglish
      -1•1 year ago

      The issue is that I often don’t want to comment and engage with some of the psychos that show up on the internet. Downvotes are a passive way to help move hateful/ignorant comments to the bottom of the thread. Having downvotes publicly accessible is giving these psychos a way to directly engage back with you.