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.
While we can certainly debate, doubt and be suspicious of the efficacy of their controls I think we can all agree that there are some in place, even if they’re shit.
No such controls exist in the fediverse.
There are near-zero privacy protections in place. If someone shows up at my door tomorrow with a warrant for my instances database I’m not going to fight it. I don’t have the pockets for it and I’m not going to bankrupt my personal self on principle.
Completely right.