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.
At least lemmy shows votes as seperate upvotes and downvotes, do you can see that someone agrees. (But please dont vote based on if you agree, only downvote misinformation, attempts to incite flamewars, spam. If its high quality an on topic don’t downvote)
I agree, I think separate tallies for up and down might be a really great thing.
On that other place, while lots of downvoting is “obvious”, a lot is really odd, like someone posting a technically correct, documentable, verified answer, and it gets downvoted? Also black-supportive or LGBTQI+ stuff gets downvoted at times. 9000 ups and 9000 downs at the same time would be umm interesting.
Yeah, that in itself is a major improvememt over every post and every i dividual having a “score”.