- cross-posted to:
- comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
- cross-posted to:
- comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
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.
I don’t think that this will help.
The reason this is easily accessible is because this data needs to be federated across the network.
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Maybe they meant they need to setup their own instance in order to figure out who’s downvoting beans.