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.

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      1 year ago

      You want your employer to know that you’re playing karma games when you’re on the clock? They are time stamped.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand the concern over it really. I mean you are on social media. My comments are much more telling than my up and down votes lol. I think this general sense of “I want to be social but I don’t want anyone knowing it’s me” is an interesting trend though.