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.

  • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    1 year ago

    and password (unencrypted)

    This should definitely be mentioned when you’re creating an account. Also, how secure are usually lemmy instances?

    • MikeEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      This is not the case at all and the parent comment was not clear