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.

  • @sabEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Also, there’s way too much trust in instances.

    I say there’s too much care about votes. Because someone can just give themselves infinite votes from their private instance, it makes it all the more worthless.

    Instances should have their own settings on what instances are allowed to keep a local copy.

    There’s a setting for that, it’s called the allowed list - configures who are allowed to federate with you. Beyond that - if it’s out, it’s out.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Votes are the only real way currently to gauge opinion about the post itself. IMO, if the votes system is so bad that people are starting to completely disregard it, there’s something wrong.