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.

  • Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net
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    1 year ago

    Pretty much, it wasn’t private on Reddit either, except the only people who had access to it were the ones running the place.

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      1 year ago

      It is weird that even with an alias, I felt more comfortable that you had to be employed by Reddit to see my data posted on Reddit?