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The exact same number of upvotes and downvotes in this two post of the same topic in different communities.
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If the number of comments were also the same I would lose my mind.
Tags without communities would upend how Lemmy works. You would need instance based moderation instead of community moderation in order for that to work. You would also run into problems if a post is tagged with multiple tags, since that could mean a different sets of mod rules applied to the same post.
i think moderation could still be done the same, with a community-on-instance set of mods. so you'd browse tags on an instance, see posts that are tagged across the federation but with mod rules applied to that particular instance. like a view of a post from your particular version of the tag.
i'm not suggesting lemmy be changed to allow this, but that there is room for a new system that works with tags rather than communities.
At that point, Lemmy would no longer be a Reddit like site. The experience would be functionally very different, probably more like a federated Tumblr.
yeah i'm not sure that the reddit style is actually optimal for a link aggregator. also i don't know about the tumblr thing either, their tags system is way more loose.