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.

  • @ExcessivelySaltyEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    That was the case with old PHPBB forums, admins could see everything.

    I think of PHPBB forums as Lemmy instances. Admins could see everything, but you wouldn’t be able to see what a user upvoted/downvoted on a different PHPBB forum, at least that’s what I gather from everyone talking here.