As much as I like the wholesomeness of the concepts of upvotes only, I’d love to downvote idiots on other instances

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I’m confused, does this mean that if your account was created on an instance without downvotes you can’t downvote thongs elsewhere where they’re enabled? How does this work the other way?

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Yeah, everyone from another instance can downvote things on our communities but we can’t, neither on our communities nor on others

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Ngl, that’s a little weird. Thanks for the clarification :)

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Not quite. Their downvotes don’t influence our algorithms. So here on Blahaj Lemmy, their downvotes don’t do anything even if their instance allows them to down vote.

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Basically, our ranking algorithms here don’t take downvotes in to account, wherever they come from.

Which means that if you view “hot posts” in a community on our instance and then view the same community on another instance, the ranking of the posts might appear different if they count downvotes.

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Ah, good to hear, that makes a lot of sense :)

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