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.

    • Catch42@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      I upvote my own posts too, I do try to avoid boosting my own posts. We’re from kbin though, I think on Lemmy self-upvotes are automatic.

      • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        1 year ago

        Yea, I automatically upvote my own posts and comments. I felt very self-conscious about it at first, but then I figured all other users do the same.
        So now I just mentally subtract one vote from every score :)

        • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I boosted and upvoted both of you because I don’t really think there is an etiquette around this stuff yet, so just do whatever.

    • Hank@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I always upvote myself. But I have to think extremely highly about my contribution to even think about boosting it.