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.

  • chris@l.roofo.ccEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Regarding your edit: that will only help if your instance doesn’t federate. If someone subscribes to the community on your instance, all actions (posts, comments, votes,…) are sent to all instances with subscribers and saved there.

    • rostadd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for the insight! I’ll guess I’ll be polite here on lemmy until someone finds a way to handle it.

      As a followup question: Would this not be against EU’s GDPR laws in some way?

      • Cracks_InTheWallsEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It will be an interesting test case if someone makes a complaint under the GDPR. Based on my very limited knowledge, it seems like a set of laws designed with centralized services owned by corporations in mind. Both how federation works and the fact that these are essentially hobbyist services would be an edge case - if allowances aren’t made I do see it going very badly for instance admins.

        Then again, I just have a very broad stroke understanding of the GDPR, so idk.