Submitted 3 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Mods and admins can see who voted what. For mere mortals it’s harder, but still possible because it’s all public information.
Your lemmy instance will send all of your votes to other instances to be counted (this is not anonymized), so any foreign instance will have your vote history. Sites like lemvotes can then show that to the world.
as has been mentioned lemvotes is the public vuable on, but I suspect that most larger admin teams will have access to custom queries from the backend.
I’d learning some deeper SQL for work, so I wrote a back end DB tool that can do lots of things like user and instance vote tracking over time:
Besides Lemvotes, Mbin instances let anyone see upvotes.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Technically, any Lemmy admin can see every user’s upvotes and downvotes — even users on different servers, because that information is federated.
I think there are some sites that expose this publicly as well. So you could probably sort it out.
Patnou@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So I just upvoted you. So an admin can see that but not a mod? Wouldn’t an Admin want a mod to suss it out first and just deal with the questionability of it?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Community mods can see votes on posts and comments in their communities.
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GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Mods don’t have access to the backend database, and I don’t think Lemmy exposes that information directly by default. It’s not a “feature” so much as a natural consequence of the architecture.