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.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeEnglish
    442·
    3 years ago

    Edit: Obligatory RIP my inbox.

    Can we leave this kinda stuff behind? It is NOT obligatory.

    • NotMatt@lemm.eeEnglish
      24·
      3 years ago

      I’m going to start throwing “edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!” on the end of my comments just to induce some nostalgic cringe.

        • Thomrade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          That’s a pretty common turn-of-phrase in Ireland, I remember hearing it in the early 90s!, and it’s still common to hear it from older generations too. I wouldn’t equate it with reddit slang/culture at all. I wonder when it made its way to reddit?

          • teruma@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            3 years ago

            That’s wildly interesting because it’s heavily associated with neckbeard incels (tips fedora) on Reddit because there was a time when it was overused and comparatively fancy for the average yankey american vocal style. It was also often accompanied with “Edit: thabks for the gold, kind stranger!” Thinking around 2011-2013?

    • Cheems@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      This.

      EDIT: Thanks for the awards kind stranger!

      EDIT 2: Rip my inbox

      This is all examples of reddit shit that is really dumb. We don’t need to bring it over here