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Afaik voting is not federated so you always just see the “local reaction”.
I don’t think so. You see the votes from all federated instances which can still differ
Are you sure? I occasionally see people complain about downvotes while having 0 downvotes.
You’ll see the upvotes from all federated instances. Downvotes are not federated evenly. Kbin is like that, I assume fedia.io is the same. I don’t see the downvotes I get on Lemmy instances. Sometimes that’s a good thing.
Federation is pretty buggy and very often you just won’t see eg. votes or even comments from federated instances even when you should be seeing them
Hell, sometimes even posts don’t federate. There was a period of a few days where Lemmy.World’s federation was messed up, and all my posts here from that period are some of the least-upvoted in this community. I figure those posts just never made it outside of Lemmy.World, or at least past anyone not directly browsing the community.
Like, I thought this post was pretty good, but it only got a handful of votes, and only a few of the comments were from accounts outside Lemmy.World.
Oh yeah definitely, I don’t know why I left posts out because the same problem affects everything that’s supposed to be federated
I run my own instance for just my self and I see different counts.
that doesnt sound right at all
pretty much, i did write a voting bot a while ago that did utilize multiple accounts across multiple instances so was pretty sure.
still i could have been wrong i suppose
Edit: it never ran outside a couple test scenarios if thats why i’m being downvoted
It definitely is, but there are several instances which do not federate downvotes
The post and comment votes do federate, but it’s not particularly reliable. No clue why though. That’s a bit outside my wheelhouse and there is nothing in the documentation about post voting.
Another user explained why I likely saw the discrepancy. Though, aside from that, federation generally is very much wonky and unreliable unfortunately.
Another user explained why I likely saw the discrepancy. Though, aside from that, federation generally is very much wonky and unreliable unfortunately.
It massively improved after v18, as it introduced the federation queue. Instances now actually check if activities get successfully federated and keep trying, if not.
They will still give up in some cases, though.
If the community’s server does not track downvotes, then indeed, everyone just sees downvotes by users local to their home instance. Otherwise, downvotes work the same as upvotes - that is, somewhat reliably - unless your frontend or user instance hides them but that’s your problem.
If it does work, that’s pretty cool!
I’d love to know if like, the lemmy instance catering towards Americans upvotes me, but the lemmy instance catering towards Europeans downvote me.
You’re obviously promoting the website with r that shall not be named!? Downvoted! /s
Afaik voting is not federated so you always just see the “local reaction”.
