Yes that is what it does, in the backend. Every time someone pushes a vote button though, the info is sent back to the originating server, and then it is sent out to all other servers that have at least one subscriber, so that the numbers can be updated. So this is internal federation traffic.There's now a discussion to possibly pool all those internal messages.
Voting is used differently here than it is on Reddit. Here we have no useless karma reputation collecting. So voting serves the sole purpose of sorting posts/comments by relevance. I used the downvote on Reddit very rarely but used to upvote frequently what i liked. Here, i would vote less but use downvotes more.
Upvoted your comment because of the information that followed-up. ๐
Technical note, of course the systen needs to remember who voted and who didn't. I heard that it can cause considerable network load at the servers.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances -- not for joining, just for the logo to see. I mean ... what has Marxism the philosophy to do with tanks? How dishonest can one be with their beliefs?
tankies (they hate being called that
They literally have a tank in their logo! I always love some irony.
Haha i saw that! But was that really on Reddit? Or was it on Lemmy, don't remember ...
I could have gven you a link immediately ... perhaps you even want to take part, idk: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3062