By advantage I mean posts from those instances receiving more visibility than others on feeds that sort by score (active, hot, top).
There seems to be at least two ways in which posts from instances that don’t allow downvotes receive an advantage:
- They don’t federate downvotes. That means other instances only count downvotes from their own users but not from the rest of the fediverse.
- A downvote sometimes can be counted and federated as an upvote. This happens when you first upvote a post and then change it to a downvote.
Let’s see an example. Suppose we are a user from instance A that allows downvotes and we want to vote a post on instance B that doesn’t allow downvotes. Watch what happens on instance C that also allows downvotes.
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Before the vote this is what users from each instance see (upvote - downvote = total score)
A: 10 - 0 = 10
B: 10 - 0 = 10
C: 10 - 0 = 10 -
Now we upvote the post:
A: 11 - 0 = 11
B: 11 - 0 = 11
C: 11 - 0 = 11 -
We misclicked, we meant to downvote the post:
A: 10 - 1 = 9
B: 11 - 0 = 11
C: 11 - 0 = 11
If the post was hosted on an instance that allowed downvotes users from instance C would see a total score of 9.
Odd request, could you please downvote the hell out of me? On kbin.social, only certain instances federate their downvotes and I’m curious about which ones they are.
Edit: just checked from lemmy.world and found 37 downvotes. Only 4 are visible when viewed from kbin.social, and all of them from kbin.social users like myself. I’ve definitely seen downvotes from lemmy users, which makes this a bit puzzling.
From lemmy.world here and it says I’m your 77th downvoter. I can see two upvotes which makes your aggregate score -75.
I had to make a third fediverse account to reply, between lemmy.world being down and kbin.social no longer federating my edits and replies. Upvotes federate fine but none of your downvotes federated. Thank you all for your help!
Downvoting for science!
I can’t do it. 😢 I just can’t do it!! 😭
Okay, I brought myself to do it. I’m sorry.
🤣
!moviesnob@lemmy.film
Downvoted from kbin.camp. It’s Kbin, so it should probably still work, but giving you data anyway.
Downvoted from my own (Lemmy) instance waste-of.space
lemm.ee say -100
feddit.de
kbin.cafe. According to my instance, I’m your first downvoter, which is clearly not true judging by the replies to you.
Downvoted from lemmy.sdf.org
Downvoted from lemm.ee
startrek.website
Lemmy.ca says -76