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
    2•1 year ago

    I like this idea. Easily solves the main issue with other instance admins getting access to it, while also being easy to implement.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Another option would be to aggregate votes per instance so programming.dev might only see “42 upvotes from lemmy.world”, but not user details. I don’t think that changes the inter-instance trust equation, at least not notably, and it even works in conjunction with non-aggregated upvotes and displaying everything publicly.