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.
You say that like A/S/L wasn’t a thing back in the day.
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I think we cybered
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As I put on my robe and wizard hat…
666/D/Hell
puts on wizard’s hat
Even back then we were told never to reveal that sort of stuff online. How many of us do you think were telling the truth?
You think someone would do that?
Just go on the internet and tell lies?
Lol yeah but we were 12 back then and we still understood the internet better than anyone else 🙃
Yall remember those “your stripper name is the street you grew up on and your pet’s name” challenges? Literally phishing for password recovery keys.
I got a virus.
BUG!
Flagrant System Error
Computer Over.
Virus = Very Yes