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.

  • Preston Maness ☭English
    1•1 year ago

    Because in real life, it’s (relatively) easy to have both anonymity and trust.

    It’s cute that people still believe this.

    • @democracy1984English
      0•1 year ago

      I said it’s relatively easy. Having both trust and anonymity online is significantly harder than in real life.

      However, it is easier to pick one of those and have it online then in person. In real life, total anonymity is really hard. But online you can just use tor or something.