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.

  • newDayRocks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    To further this thought, it makes it really easy for any motivated party to profile accounts.

    Create an account that posts intentionally politically motivated news or comments.

    Rinse and repeat a few times and now you the data you want.