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Wait, downvotes are now allowed?
I'm still not very sure about this and I wanted to ask about it here for a long time. I think they are "disabled", but I think on lemmy, disabling them means that for every 5 downvotes the system shows a downvote. I don't exactly understand how it works on communities with downvotes disabled.
Edit: I found this post by Ada about a year ago:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/104422
Turns out that it (probably) was decided to modify the downvote system so that for every 5 downvotes, 1 downvote appears. I'm still kinda confused tho😅
As far as I understand it, blahaj has downvotes disabled, but since Lemmy is federated and other instances don't, they can still downvote.
So does this mean the downvotes I see on blahaj are exactly the number of downvotes from all the users in instances that allow downvotes which my instance federates with?
(I wrote it in such a confusing way, but I dont know if I can make it any better😅)
Edit: could you please downvote this comment from your (not mander.xyz) instance to test if the downvotes federate?
I think it’s downvotes from your instance but not 100% sure
I think from the tests I did here with 2 people (from different instances) the downvotes are from any instance that federates with mine (though still not 100% sure).
I asked above to downvote me from their non-mander.xyz instance and I can see 2 downvotes.