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.

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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not true.

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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years 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.

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