We have disabled them which means we can’t downvote and they don’t federate to our servers. They more or less don’t exist. Others servers can downvote and they will federate to other servers that have downvotes enabled.
My understanding is that not federating downvotes means that for blahaj communities, the canonical vote count has no downvotes, and instances can downvote if they like but their downvotes don’t get federated.
So if someone makes a post on this community and 20 people upvote it, then 10 Lemmy worlders downvote it, Lemmy.world would see a score of 10 but sopuli.xyz would see a score of 20 still.
We have disabled them which means we can’t downvote and they don’t federate to our servers. They more or less don’t exist. Others servers can downvote and they will federate to other servers that have downvotes enabled.
doesn’t that mean that everyone but you knows when you’re being downvoted? Because that doesn’t really make sense to me…
My understanding is that not federating downvotes means that for blahaj communities, the canonical vote count has no downvotes, and instances can downvote if they like but their downvotes don’t get federated.
So if someone makes a post on this community and 20 people upvote it, then 10 Lemmy worlders downvote it, Lemmy.world would see a score of 10 but sopuli.xyz would see a score of 20 still.
It means people on servers with downvotes enabled see the downvotes. Other users on blåhaj don’t.