Far too often, lately, I see lots of people worried about the number of downvotes, or making preliminary justifications and requests to not downvote particular posts.

Me? I don’t have to think about any of that. The content of the posts and comments determines their quality, not some artificial number that only represents whether people dis/like something.

Edit: Wow, a lot of people from other instances seem really offended that I don’t like downvoting and seem a bit confused that I’d be thanking my admins for something I appreciate.

If you like downvoting, you don’t have to move here. Enjoy your instance’s features. Welcome to the Fediverse.

  • Tiff@reddthat.comM
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    4 months ago

    Yes. Downvotes would be shown locally only. So it’s only your instance.

    That’s because where communities are ‘hosted’ act as a central authority, think a web with the host in the middle, instead of a completely decentralized version.

    The beehaw incident defederation post over here: https://reddthat.com/post/35325 goes into more detail about the inner workings of communities.