Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.
Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?
I was a little skeptical of this assertion without any sources, but 10m of source scanning does seem to support it:
I haven’t looked for APIs to extract this data, it might only be available to an instance admin… but yeah Lemmy does not seem to aggregate vote histories, but rather stores them on a per-user basis.
Is that ID local to the instance or universal across the fediverse?
As far as I know (another assumption haha), there’s no universal IDs across the fediverse.