Despite it being their software, they don't maintain this part. It'd be like saying Firefox is responsible for preventing fake bank websites from existing (this is ignoring how they also ship malware protection lists anymore to try and help). The Discover app is just a client where a distro supplies the software lists. On OpenSUSE it browses SUSE (and Flathub, if you add it.)

On Ubuntu it browses Ubuntu's APT repos and snap.

You can easily alter what repos the software uses too, it's just using whatever the distribution has configured it to use in conf files and repo lists.

I'm well aware, I run an instance and know it's in the DB. But on my instance I'd have to trawl the database for it instead of getting a nice UI look. That's what I meant.

Is that a fork? Or just the newest update? The instance I run doesn't have that.

That feels gross, like if I could see poll voters on Mastodon.

Makes it feel like Lemmy was written by some insecure folks.

Can this admin see these votes without diving through the database because he's an insecure douchebag? Like Mastodon only shows some things even to admins without being gross and unethical by digging into the database directly.