this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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?
The table that store upvote is named
comment_like
andpost_like
. Here, you have the vote’s unique id, the local user id that is linked to the it’s "global id", the local post id which is also linked to it’s "global id", the value of the vote (+/-1) and the date.So votes are indeed totally not anonymous.
(and I run my server sinces less than a week, and the sum of entry in the two table is of 114 950 votes. Certainly enought for doing a bunch of analysis.)
Example of datas for the comment vote table (ids has been changed)
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