Right now, downvotes (reduces) don’t federate to (and from?) Kbin instances. This lack of federation makes the downvote counter really inaccurate—a comment that looks like it’s +10 might be -15 when you look at it from lemmy.world.

This leaves me with a few questions:

  • Is downvote federation going to be implemented?
  • If so, is it a priority or something that’ll happen much further down the line?
  • If not, will downvoting be removed?
  • wildginger
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    7 months ago

    Detering downvotes weakens downvotes as a filter, by definition. “More justified” means “when I think I wont be scrutinized for the decision,” which means racist content that is walking the line is now unfiltered, at risk of someone yelling at you because they didnt hear the dog whistle. Low but-not-shit quality content is now unfiltered from risk of the small group who disagree (or its creator) harassing you for “insulting” the work by casting a vote on it.

    “More justified” is such a nebulous and flimsy take on a panopticon voting system.

    If defederation doesnt shield those votes from non admins, then the devs should be working to prevent that. Thats a bad bad bad sign for federation future. Thats a gaping hole in armor against both extremist groups and moderation of content quality.