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Who is down voting this?! 👾👾👾
Migrated redditors who are mad that the FOSS platform they're using attracts Linux users.
Or people who don't want to see low effort meme content. There's a community specifically for that sort of thing and Linux. linuxmemes@lemmy.world
Lemmy.one doesn't allow downvoting though, so I didn't downvote it, but I sure as heck didn't upvote it.
Huh? I thought that it only applies to posts on your instance and not all the interactions that users of this instance can do. Am I wrong?
Nope, as a Lemmy.One user, I cannot downvote anywhere. It's probably my only complaint with Lemmy.One, actually. I'm not sure I would have downvoted this, but it is the type of thing I don't want to see.
I understand that instance may disable downvoting to create a "safe" space on it but I don't understand why it would limit you from downvoting on instances that DO allow you to downvote stuff.
No, looks like it's a global setting. If your instance doesn't allow it, you're not allowed to downvote anywhere.
Can a person outside of instance with disabled downvotes downvote stuff on that instance?
No, that's what I was trying to explain. If downvotes are disabled on your instance, you can't downvote anything anywhere on any instance.
I'm asking for the opposite, if your instance allows you to downvote stuff then can you downvote stuff that's on instances that don't allow them?
Yeah, like beehaw. I can downvote stuff on beehaw, tried it just to see if I can.
But, I don't think they can see the downvotes.