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.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    Are you sure that every server can see any other server upvotes? As I know, upvotes are only from your home instance, which means only your instance admin can see that

      • @[email protected]English
        0•1 year ago

        The votes might be the one from his instance (I’ve no time to check right now), as I’ve understanded, upvotes and down votes are instance specific, so, this means for the same post: Instance a show 10 upvotes Instance b show 5 (The post is in instance a) Which means a admin know who are the 10 people but can’t know who are the 5 from instance b, and instance b admin know who are his 5 people and not the 10 from instance a. (I might be wrong, if it’s the case please correct me)

        • @MikinaEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I think that this would best be answered by OP, @[email protected], since TBH I have no idea. So, assuming tagging works here, which one is it?