Federating downvotes on instances that don't support downvotes - Answered (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lets say that an instance doesn't allow downvotes called NoDownvotesInstance. That instance hosts a community called NoDownvotesCommunity.

Now, lets say someone on another instance that does allow downvotes places a downvote on a post made to NoDownvotesCommunity. Does NoDownvotesInstance federate that downvote out so that other instance with downvotes can see it, or does it just drop the downvote so that it goes no further?

Edit - @[email protected] has answered this, with evidence. Despite the highest upvoted reply suggesting otherwise, it appears as that instances with disabled downvotes do not federate downvotes on.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

votes are federated. instances that don't support downvotes only display upvotes.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

But do they just don’t display them or do they really don’t use them, like could you change the „top“ sorting of any NoDownvotesCommunity just by accessing it from another instance and place downvotes

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Downvotes are simply not part of the algorithm on instances that disable them

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

if you're on an instance that does not support downvotes, it only displays upvotes. if you're on an instance which does support downvotes it displays both. I'm not really sure how I'm being unclear.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They're asking about the total score. The better way to explain it is that there is not a total score, there is just the upvote count listed as the score. Downvotes and the calculated score based on upvote/downvotes are ignored.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You said they don’t display the downvotes, I asked if the algorithm that does the sorting still uses them (since they’re federated so the info is technically there and can be seen by other instances) or if it also ignores them.

But the question has now been answered below so it’s all clear

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Right. Which is why I assume that even downvotes get federated by instances that disable downvotes. But I was hoping for something more solid than an assumption :)

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