I would say yes, it's allowed simply because it's only possible using whatever commands one can access through the API. So the functionality is there, it's just not easily accessed by the default interface. Same with being able to see who voted how on every post (Tesseract has this function) because it's still tracked, just not a thing on the default interface.

Try Boost or Voyager, I guess? I only know what I've seen sporadically in conversations about it here on Lemmy and I don't use either of these apps myself.