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.

    • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      I think it depends on where it gets posted. If you’re in a shitposting thread than I say go wild. I do agree that it has a tendency to derail conversations though.

      • hightrix@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Oh yeah, 100% agreed. I didn’t mean to say I’d downvote meme comments in a meme community.