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Local communities and down vote federation (self.meta)
submitted 1 year ago by cnx to c/meta
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With slrpnk.net disabling down voting, can posts in a local community be down voted and seen as such by users from other instances?

Context: I am considering creating a community here and want to know that will handicap features people elsewhere didn't choose to not have.

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[–] cnx 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell disabling down-votes on an instance just hides that feature from users on that instance.

Thanks, that's good to know.

I would prefer if down-votes would not federate

Is lemmy more aggressive with relaying than microblogging implementations? In my experience favorites/reactions rarely make it to third-party instances (not involving in reacting or being reacted) of the latter.

community standards really differ

Couldn't this be solved by per-community rules?

[–] poVoq 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it usually works cross instance πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

What I mean is that what people consider worthy of a down-vote differs from instance to instance. You can't enforce a community rule for down-voting behaviour and some Lemmy instances are known for politically motivated down-vote brigading that does not align with the values I would like to see here on this instance.

[–] cnx 2 points 1 year ago

You can’t enforce a community rule for down-voting behaviour

Ah right d-; Mobs can also jump in communities they're not part of just to down vote.