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.

    • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winOP
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      1 year ago

      And who helped. Via the database on my instance I can tell I was about the 8th person in the federation to upvote the original beans post.

      Not particularly useful knowledge but I find it fascinating, nonetheless.