Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy
Xylight@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
If you’re an instance admin, for any post, you can just click “view votes” and see everything tied to usernames, even outside your own instance. Moderators can too, but it’s restricted to the communities they moderate.
moseschrute@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
So if a bad actor wanted to get aces to vote data, they could setup and instance and have it federate with any instance they want to extract votes from?
Xylight@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
Yes, it’s very simple too. You don’t even need to extract anything from a database or do some complicated stuff. As an admin you have free access to all moderation tools no matter where the post is from, including the option to “view votes”.