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.
Woah woah woah. Hold the phone. You’re telling me that things that I post… on the internet… are… PUBLIC???
Good data if you’re trying to find the homophobes and transphobes who think they’re “infiltrating” and voting down every single one of those posts. They out themselves.
Yes … That’s how social networking works. ANY site you go to will have this much info if not more since most “social networks” want YOU. Your personal info etc. Lemmy is just a username attached to posts and comments. So in a way it’s actually less than other networks like meta for instance
Bad post. Ofc the person running the server can see who votes. Your original post made it seem like anyone has access to this data.
A government would only need to get its hands on one instance to havest downvote based dissent data.
Tbh I’d rather we had an up-only based vote system though. Downvotes had a lot to do with the reddit culture that I don’t want taking over Lemmy.
