You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.

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A screenshot of a lemmy post on Friendica, it shows lemmy user's votes showing as likes and dislikes.

Upvotes seem to just federate as likes and dislikes.

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There are plenty of ways to handle double voting without plaintext user strings. The fact that it's done this way is just lazy and poor design and doesn't actually do anything to prevent a rogue instance from vote spamming with fake users.