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.

  • @XanXic@lemmy.world
    9•1 year ago

    It’s apparently because it’s Twitter based and Twitter shows likes and such. Kbin doesn’t really have a like upvote downvotes thing. It’s like a favorite and a boost. It’s weird

    • VerifiablyMrWonka
      14•1 year ago

      Not true.

      Both Lemmy and KBin map the same activitypub activities to the same upvote and downvote actions.

      • JohnEdwa
        8•1 year ago

        Currently yes, but before they started federating they didn’t. That’s why Kbin has both Boost (retweet), and the Favourite (like) is the “upvote”, which end up here https://kbin.social/fav - and until very recently, those didn’t increase your reputation.

        Kbin is (was) less like Reddit and more like Twitter with downvotes.

    • czech
      4•1 year ago

      Kbin has normal upvote/downvotes since a recent update.