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.

  • jcg@halubilo.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Which is why either

    • Votes should be publicly viewable like they are in kbin. Not necessarily readily viewable to save server resources, but through a click through or something. No need to hide something that is, in essence, public info.
    • Votes should not be federated at all, but that would be awful for very small instances, though this is how Mastodon has always done it.
    • Votes should be federated in aggregate, but this would kind of break federation because it’s a new type of Activity.