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.

  • chris@l.roofo.ccEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I think the problem is that people post things without informing themselves. I don’t know how to change that. People don’t read disclaimers. How do you make them know these things? You can’t put big red warning labels everywhere. People need to inform themselves.