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.

  • @PixxlManEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    I’m pretty sure you could request it from any server. Just because it’s federated doesn’t mean the law doesn’t apply to anyone else with personal data.

    • @sauerkrausEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      And it only matters if you care about operating in the jurisdiction of GDPR. Violate it as much as you want if you’re not located there.