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: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

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    1 year ago

    Your friend or classmate would be like “You’ve got games on your phone?” then when you’re not looking they’ll try to access your social media.

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      1 year ago

      I suppose, but then they’re going to look up illicit content on said account in the hopes of framing you for a crime? That’s quite a stretch.