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.

  • HazziaEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Reddit would have to keep that info on downvotes stored, right? If they didn’t, it should be trivial to mass downvote something with very few users

    • orangeboats@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Reddit definitely stores upvoters and downvoters of each comment, otherwise it won’t remember which comments you have downvoted.

    • kuneho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, up/downvotes are somehow has to be tied to the user. If not, a page refresh should “reset” the state and you would be able to vote again.