You said they don’t display the downvotes, I asked if the algorithm that does the sorting still uses them (since they’re federated so the info is technically there and can be seen by other instances) or if it also ignores them.
But the question has now been answered below so it’s all clear
But do they just don’t display them or do they really don’t use them, like could you change the „top“ sorting of any NoDownvotesCommunity just by accessing it from another instance and place downvotes
The biggest issue I have with defederating is that you basically exclude every member of that instance from discussion on other instances even when they keep their nsfw post completely within their own instance.
If I’m on Instance A that defederated Instance B because it’s NSFW friendly, then I also can’t see comments from members of Instance B in completely unrelated comunities on other Instances.
The way I always viewed those up- and downvotes was as a quicker way of commenting with “I like/agree with this” or “I don’t like/agree with this” and that would be there for everyone to see too, so why shouldn’t that be true for upvotes?
Though it’s bad design that you can’t see this info on lemmy but you can see the info about lemmy users on kbin. Either have lemmy show that info too or limit the info on kbin to up/downvotes from kbin users only.
Show users that the community they try to interact with is on a server that defederated the users instance
Not only that, also show users when comments in any community are made by users from an instance that your instance defederated.
Because you(instance A) may very well only be able to see half of the comments in a thread of a community of instance B because half of them were made by users of instance C which instance A defederated.
Right now the comments just don’t get copied to your instance at all, which also leads to followup comments not being visible even if they are not from defederated instances.
Instead I’d like everything to be copied and then flagged based on defederations. Just don’t show the original content and instead show a hint that a comment can’t be seen because of defederation would be enough.
At least that way we know that we’re missing something.
Because simply not showing it also leads to confusion why you see less comments than other users on another instance.
And this goes both ways. The user from the other instance(who can still see your comment because his instance didn’t defederate yours) should also see that I’m from an instance that defederated his instance directly by looking at my post before commenting, maybe in form of a symbol or a note next to my username, so that he knows it doesn’t make any sense to comment on my post.
Community groups (Add communities to a group, see posts only from selected group)
That feature can’t come soon enough, not only in mobile apps but also on the website itself
Has she tried turning it on the other side yet?