• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      It is information provided to the instance runners, mods, and other fedeverse platforms such as mastodon. It inherently tracks such to know if a user has previously liked/up voted an entry.

      So you may have a conversation on here, and some users will know who is downvoting, some will only know who’s upcoming, and some will know none

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I think part of the motive is to make brigading harder (show if users or bots are colluding to vote things up or down)