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.

  • CifrareVerba@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    1 year ago

    I concur with this.

    Don’t use your real name or anything tied back to your identity online if you don’t want to compromise your identity.

    I say this as someone who is pro privacy and takes many steps to avoid leaking data. The way lemmy does this, like others said, and the Fediverse does in general, is good as it helps prevent astroturf and makes the project(s) as a whole more trustworthy as you can see, in real time, what “campaigns” are being made.