this is it exactly. the software should implement all the protocl pieces, and allow local admins to decide not only what is shown, but what is federated.
devs shouldnt be making that call.
i think up/down counts will start to make sense when people further understand the nature of the systems they are logging into. i would prefer not to create a technological solution to that ignorance.
and although its extremely unpopular, if we want reddit-like volumes of users were going to have to think about reputation points/karma. i think i just felt lemmy.world shudder
In principle each instance could keep a running total to be added to the global total.
Consider the purpose of the votes: it’s a popularity contest for ranking within a timeline. Does the community on instance X want their timeine rankings to be influenced by votes by instance Y (which could even be prone to shenanigans)? A tiny instance might want external votes, in which case it should ask other instances what their totals are. But if an instance reaches a certain amount of activity, then external votes are actually pollution that makes scores less accurate/relevant with respect to the views of that particular community. E.g. the solar punk instance does not benefit from votes of those on a right-wing instance like hexbear.
@BentiGorlich I personally want upvotes and downvotes of threads posts to be public to everyone on every instance, and count of favourites of microblog posts to be public only to followers.
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