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.

  • themoonisacheeseEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s fair enough, but other servers can’t correlate your account with your IP nor do they have your email. User agent strings are public information, and you control what it is. If you’re worried about privacy, simply send a recent chrome user agent and nobody can identify you in the sea of other chrome user agents.