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.
Sure, I agree but less technically versed people don’t see it that way. It’s obfuscated, that delete doesn’t mean deleted. If I delete something on Reddit or Twitter, it’s hidden for anyone but the owner and maybe a crawler that happen to have snacked it. People try to circumvent this by using sites that cache Reddit, but even there it most often is not available if you deleted it fast enough. It costs money and there’s a delay to have a crawler everywhere all at once.
Of course nothing is ever truly deleted on the web but we have levels of hiding it. I don’t think that alone justifies ignoring that issue. It makes a difference if someone can find it with one click or needs effort. One is much easier to abuse to dogpile someone. Sure, you might not agree with me, I still though it was important to voice my concerns.
I think the problem is that people post things without informing themselves. I don’t know how to change that. People don’t read disclaimers. How do you make them know these things? You can’t put big red warning labels everywhere. People need to inform themselves.
Which is an education problem and has nothing to do with lemmy.
It is fucking 2023 if you don’t understand how the internet works by now, it’s out of ignorance and likely has to do with this societal aristocratic attitude towards “techy” subjects.
It is your responsibility to be informed and to understand the consequences of your actions. We’re finally wakin up a bit :)