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.

  • SigmaticsEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know a lot about the protocol. Don’t the admins of the other instances decide who they federate with? As any additional federated instances will cause more traffic

    • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      By default every instance federates with every other instance. You have to take explicit actions to prevent that.