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.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I always thought the upvote/downvote function was to promote information relevant to the topic and bury stuff that is nonsense or irrelevant… not an agree/disagree button.

    That was the major problem with reddit. Instead of upvoting detailed posts with relevant information, people now just upvote whatever sounds right to them.