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.
I mean, remember some years ago when a Reddit admin edited a comment straight from the database?
Oh wow, I haven’t heard of it. I used Reddit a lot tho, but only for subscribed content. Maybe this slipped through my vision.
Sounds wild, tho 😆