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.

  • Dav
    39•1 year ago

    So everyone knows I upvote my own posts? This is an outrage.

    • Catch42
      7•1 year ago

      I upvote my own posts too, I do try to avoid boosting my own posts. We’re from kbin though, I think on Lemmy self-upvotes are automatic.

      • Thelsim
        2•1 year ago

        Yea, I automatically upvote my own posts and comments. I felt very self-conscious about it at first, but then I figured all other users do the same.
        So now I just mentally subtract one vote from every score :)

      • Dav
        2•1 year ago

        Never thought of boosting them too, see you at the top.

    • Hank
      1•1 year ago

      I always upvote myself. But I have to think extremely highly about my contribution to even think about boosting it.