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.

  • Kirpy@le.weme.wtf
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    1 year ago

    Don’t think people should be expected to be developers to consider their right to privacy on websites where contents meant to be private. Like online banking, instant messaging. Let’s not strip devs of these services of their responsibility.