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.

  • cakeistheanswer@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Fully expected to be buried since I’m late to the party.

    That’s really only half of it, there is no real erasure possible when everyone’s holding a cached copy. Personally… I kind of like it, I don’t hold any value to the words I contribute here as long as they’re for everyone.

    But everything and everyone is living in concentric glass houses here.

    • MyFairJulia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      But everything and everyone is living in concentric glass houses here. You might even call that a Glass Onion 😄