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The testing instance is not a source of traffic so the quota would have no direct effect on it. The savings there are a result of what's happening on other instances.
I'm showing that the vote quota reduced federation traffic for the whole threadiverse by 30% to 50%. What's happening there is lemmy.world, etc, where all the communities are, are sending less votes to everywhere (including to my testing instance). It's the community hosters that send copies of the votes to everyone, not the instance hosting the voter.
This is a huge win, especially for instances that host a lot of communities like lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, etc.
So looking at Piefed.world (on piefed version: 1.6.27):
Sh.itjust.works (Lemmy):
It would seem you need to normalize the packet rate for user activity to get an accurate picture. It should show a slight decrease of packets per active user (assuming same activity level), like you want and I said originally. But, it seems, the large decrease in the posted traffic graph is correlated to a large decrease in activity (posts and comments).
Piefed.social posts decreased 61.97%, and comments decreased 53.58% over the same period (much higher than a piefed instance that hasn't switched and a Lemmy instance). So, I don't think we should call this a "huge win" and would like to reiterate what I've been saying, the possible network stress reductions are not worth the downsides of limiting people (at this scale).
To me, you seem to be ignoring what I write and to repeat roughly the same thing over and over. That's fine to do, just please let me know so I can stop responding (it'll just save me and you some time).
Edit: formatting, and a word change
What's up with OP's votes anyway? My instance shows exactly 1 vote in the database, which is a bit of a mismatch against the original question?! But they've been here for a long time.
I'm confused on your question.
Are you saying the post only has one upvote (I see 14 up and 1 down?
Or are you saying your database only shows them as having used 1 vote? It's a "daily" vote limiter so maybe it reset? Also, they aren't on your instance so you may not be federated with everywhere they used their votes.
Or are you asking something else?
Sorry, I meant their outgoing votes. The post_votes table on my instance contains one upvote for the user account (this post's self-upvote) and no other votes. No post_reply_votes either. But it should store data from the last 6 months. That could be due to perspective. But I don't see any upvotes on piefed.social either. So I'm a bit confused since OP writes they hit the limit. Did they talk about a different account? Did the votes we talk about somehow get dropped? Or are we talking hypotheticals here and it's been more than 6 months since they voted?
No worries. Appreciate the clarification.
That does sound weird. Could be a different account. I believe the servers only store the last like 3000 votes and drop the older ones (my votes last about a week). So, maybe something with that. Maybe a Piefed.social admin removed them because they considered them invalid or wasteful.
I think we'd need to ask a piefed admin or OP to get a better idea of what happened and why.