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: Obligatory RIP my inbox.

  • LucidlethargyEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    So this is interesting… I thought only kbin visualized voting. Does this mean Lemmy’s users are also tracked on kbin?

    • Wander@yiffit.netEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yes. But Kbin is actually doing the right thing by disclosing the votes since any instance admin would be able to see them anyways.

      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        kbin doesn’t allow downvotes, right? I think the potential issue here is people figuring out who downvotes them then proceed to harrass the downvoters. Maybe lemmy should just store the cryptographic signature of the downvoter, which should be enough for the system to verify the action’s validity, and skip storing the actual username.

    • chris@l.roofo.ccEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Every subscriber of a community or magazine gets a message containing who voted. So if a kbin user subscribed to a lemmy community they’d see who voted what because the data is stored on the kbin instance.

    • geo@vlemmy.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m no expert but I believe comments are pulled down by an instance when a user requests the information and is then cached in the DB. So not everything is, but content that’s viewed by a user on the instance will be.