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.

  • IzzyEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Does anybody know if your subscriptions can be seen by admins of other instances? It doesn’t seem like that information would need to be shared, but maybe it is anyway.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      I’d assume it can’t be, since federated subscriptions don’t show up in the communuty counter.

    • JackbyDevEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Yes. When you subscribe to a community you send a Follow Group request which updates the list of Followers. I believe only your instance’s admin and the community you are subscribing to’s admin can see this though.