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.winOPEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Anybody with access to the database on ANY instance. It would be pretty easy to surface in the UI if someone was so inclined to code it.

    • atocci@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      Kbin was so inclined. You can see who interacted with any post and how they did right from the default UI.

      • theinspectorst@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        There’s been lots of discussion of this on kbin. I tend to like it. I think it encourages people to stop and think ‘why’ before they downvote things - compared to Reddit, where people tended to downvote thoughtlessly and often, and which contributed to a culture on some subs that was quite toxic.

        • JohnEdwa@kbin.social
          6·
          1 year ago

          Ironically Kbin might be the place where people will follow the downvote reddiquette correctly, something that almost never happened in Reddit itself:

          Please don’t downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don’t personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you’re downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.

          • yip-bonk@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            So if we don’t like it . . . don’t . . downvote it?

            Isn’t that, y’know, what the downvote’s for?

            That’s cornfusing.

            • ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.ml
              2·
              1 year ago

              No? The votes are for what contributes (or not) to a conversation, and deepens the dialogue.

              That’s why it’s infuriating when someone is downvoted when they have an unpopular but well-structured opinion, while a one-liner joke gets a million upvotes.

            • theinspectorst@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              No, that’s never what downvotes were for. It’s not a ‘disagree’ button. It’s just that Reddit got a bit toxic as it grew and the masses started treating it that way.

        • lackadaisy@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ll probably be a lot less likely to downvote here, just because if something is so inflammatory that I’d want to, I probably don’t want to draw their attention to me anyway. But I’m glad to know early on.