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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)
Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.
Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc
(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama
Tags: fediverse news, lemmy news, lemmyverse
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... doesn't that just mean that only non-LemmyNSFW users will be able to downvote?
I'm on Beehaw, which doesn't allow downvotes. If you downvote any of my comments on Beehaw I'll literally never know unless I log in from another instance. Beehaw also won't federate your downvotes to other instances, either, so only other users on the same instance will see them.
It's a pretty great system, imho. Downvotes haven't been useful since Digg collapsed and Rediquette went out the window.
Well that's it I'm downvoting this! 🙃
Felt weird typing it, too. It's okay to talk about Rediquette on Lemmy as ancient history from 12 (?) years ago, right?
It also means that you will only see the downvotes from your instance. So I would not be able to see your downvotes, because you are from kbin.social.
If you are on a large instance, like lemmy.world, you'll still see a lot of downvotes.
Downvotes are disabled on Beehaw, and I believe that downvotes from other instances don't federate - i.e. they're only visible on the instance the user downvoted from. If you're on a massive instance and you view a popular community you'll still get "useful" numbers of downvotes but otherwise it'll mostly be upvotes.
I think Lemmy does need a more nuanced downvote system (e.g. you need to select a reason or there's a quota or something), but I'm not sure how it'd work with the wider fediverse.
Edit: I should have scrolled more, two people had already written this comment).