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.
Now we know who are the people stalling the liftoff of the bean’s meme to the stratosphere.
And who helped. Via the database on my instance I can tell I was about the 8th person in the federation to upvote the original beans post.
Not particularly useful knowledge but I find it fascinating, nonetheless.