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.

  • Ultrawide1654@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Mhm yeah you are right, but was that how it was used, really? It wasn’t a “This is bad content”-metric. It was a “I don’t agree and I think you suck”-metric. At least quite often

      • Ultrawide1654@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Cool! Yeah, what you’re saying makes sense. I might be changing my mind a little bit, we’ll see how it all turns out. Thanks for the response! :)

    • astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s how it’s always going to work especially politically, and that’s not necessarily a negative in a decentralized model like Lemmy.