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What happens to downvotes when instances have different policies?
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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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They just can't downvote but other people can downvote them
Addressing what Jamie said as well: they won't see the downvote on their instance, but you will see it on yours.
My understanding is that each instance has its own copy of every post, comment, and vote total. You might notice that viewing the same post from lemmy.ml vs lemmy.world, it'll have a different point total, some comments missing, and maybe different comments and posts altogether. This is because when a user interacts with Lemmy, the instance will send out a notification to other instances that the interaction happened--once. If another instance is down or busy and misses the notification, there's no system in place to correct it later. So when you have a situation like now where a massive influx of users is causing the biggest servers to go down constantly, those notifications are constantly missed. And if you send a downvote to a server that has them disabled, that particular server simply won't read the downvote.
Is there a reason why the notification can only happen once? Why can't it continue to update or just keep trying until a connection is established? Genuinely curious, I know next to nothing about this kind of internet structure.
Full disclosure, I don't know a ton either, but my guess would be that making even more calls like that would make server load even worse
So, if they don't know that, they probably just figure people have taken upvotes back?
Unless the post goes negative.