• Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
      4·
      3 个月前

      I’m still not very sure about this and I wanted to ask about it here for a long time. I think they are “disabled”, but I think on lemmy, disabling them means that for every 5 downvotes the system shows a downvote. I don’t exactly understand how it works on communities with downvotes disabled.

      Edit: I found this post by Ada about a year ago:

      https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/104422

      Turns out that it (probably) was decided to modify the downvote system so that for every 5 downvotes, 1 downvote appears. I’m still kinda confused tho😅

      • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        3 个月前

        As far as I understand it, blahaj has downvotes disabled, but since Lemmy is federated and other instances don’t, they can still downvote.

        • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
          3·
          3 个月前

          So does this mean the downvotes I see on blahaj are exactly the number of downvotes from all the users in instances that allow downvotes which my instance federates with?

          (I wrote it in such a confusing way, but I dont know if I can make it any better😅)

          Edit: could you please downvote this comment from your (not mander.xyz) instance to test if the downvotes federate?

            • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
              2·
              3 个月前

              I think from the tests I did here with 2 people (from different instances) the downvotes are from any instance that federates with mine (though still not 100% sure).

              I asked above to downvote me from their non-mander.xyz instance and I can see 2 downvotes.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        2·
        3 个月前

        I think when they are disabled you can still see the downvotes from your own instance but none from other servers. I’m the only user on my instance so at most I was able to see my own downvote.