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.

  • rostadd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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
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      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.