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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    Mhm yeah you are right, but was that how it was used, really? It wasn’t a “This is bad content”-metric. It was a “I don’t agree and I think you suck”-metric. At least quite often

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      How it was used is how I want it to be used. I want to know the consensus of the community of which I participate. I DO NOT agree that downvote should only be used for comments that “do not contribute”. That’s reddit and I do not want lemmy to be reddit.

      Downvote = I think this content is bad

      If I’m in an instance for the latest Marvel movie, and the community overwhelmingly hates it, I want to know that by seeing how many downvotes it received.

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        1 year ago

        Cool! Yeah, what you’re saying makes sense. I might be changing my mind a little bit, we’ll see how it all turns out. Thanks for the response! :)

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      That’s how it’s always going to work especially politically, and that’s not necessarily a negative in a decentralized model like Lemmy.