That’s right I upvote every post I can! Its nice to be here and I hope this place keeps growing like it is and takes the place of reddit. Have a great day!

  • Clipboards@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m in the same boat, but I also don’t think I could join an instance with downvotes disabled. Status quo is great, but there are times in which downvotes are necessary - seems a bit shortsighted to disable them

    • zabby39103@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      So downvotes are disabled even for communities not on lemmy.one? So in other communities people can downvote me but I can’t downvote them? Arg, I picked the wrong server.

    • Lazycog@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The weird thing is that on kbin.social you see who has upvoted/downvoted comments and posts (not only your own comments and posts either). I don’t know if this is just part of the activityPub protocol and don’t know if it is visible on any of the lemmy websites, but it sparked interesting discussions whether this will cause problems or if it actually enforces people to use the downvote button as “does not contribute” instead of “I disagree”.

      • carbon_based@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Technical note, of course the systen needs to remember who voted and who didn’t. I heard that it can cause considerable network load at the servers.

        • Lazycog@lemmy.oneEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah that makes sense, I just thought maybe that is something that would be kept in the backend and then just give the values to frontend. Didn’t know about the issue with network load, that’s interesting.

          • carbon_based@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Yes that is what it does, in the backend. Every time someone pushes a vote button though, the info is sent back to the originating server, and then it is sent out to all other servers that have at least one subscriber, so that the numbers can be updated. So this is internal federation traffic.There’s now a discussion to possibly pool all those internal messages.