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.

  • @trachemysEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    All the more reason to keep a different alt for each area of interest.

    • OmniGlitcherEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      Ah yes, because the practical option is to be constantly switching accounts and instances based on what you want to look at for 5 minutes each.

      • Boz (he/him)English
        1•1 year ago

        I find it’s possible to be logged into two instances on the same browser, so it doesn’t need to be more difficult than switching tabs. (That may change, I don’t know whether it’s technically desirable, but if it’s relevant to someone’s interests…)

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      OK so let’s tell the regular user “hey come to lemmy, but don’t forget to keep multiple accounts because here everyone can spy on you”

      That’s not a good message

    • @AncientMarinerEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      That’s a temporary workaround, but Lemmy isn’t the easiest place to come into, and things like this just make it harder.

      It’s a problem I think Lemmy devs need to solve.