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.

    • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winOPEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Anybody with access to the database on ANY instance. It would be pretty easy to surface in the UI if someone was so inclined to code it.

      • atocci@kbin.social
        10·
        1 year ago

        Kbin was so inclined. You can see who interacted with any post and how they did right from the default UI.

        • theinspectorst@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          There’s been lots of discussion of this on kbin. I tend to like it. I think it encourages people to stop and think ‘why’ before they downvote things - compared to Reddit, where people tended to downvote thoughtlessly and often, and which contributed to a culture on some subs that was quite toxic.

          • JohnEdwa@kbin.social
            5·
            1 year ago

            Ironically Kbin might be the place where people will follow the downvote reddiquette correctly, something that almost never happened in Reddit itself:

            Please don’t downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don’t personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you’re downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.

            • yip-bonk@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              So if we don’t like it . . . don’t . . downvote it?

              Isn’t that, y’know, what the downvote’s for?

              That’s cornfusing.

              • ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.ml
                2·
                1 year ago

                No? The votes are for what contributes (or not) to a conversation, and deepens the dialogue.

                That’s why it’s infuriating when someone is downvoted when they have an unpopular but well-structured opinion, while a one-liner joke gets a million upvotes.

              • theinspectorst@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                No, that’s never what downvotes were for. It’s not a ‘disagree’ button. It’s just that Reddit got a bit toxic as it grew and the masses started treating it that way.

          • lackadaisy@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            I’ll probably be a lot less likely to downvote here, just because if something is so inflammatory that I’d want to, I probably don’t want to draw their attention to me anyway. But I’m glad to know early on.

    • May@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Everyone. U can see who boosted , downvoted/reduced, or upvote/favourited any comment by pressing “more” then “activity”. For posts it’s at the bottom of the comment section