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.

  • RickEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I turned off downvotes and no karma in lemmy is nice. It’s overall a friendlier experience IMO.

    • MuddybulldogOPEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      Another example of YSK. The lack of a karma system is a fallacy. It’s only because the devs haven’t surfaced the data, as karma, in the user interface.

      Going by Reddit standards, your post karma is 54 and your comment karma is 527.

      The data is all there and there are alternative clients who do provide it in that manner.

      • RickEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Well you’re no fun 😝 . I get it though, I saw a userscript the other day that could add it to your interface.