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Federating downvotes on instances that don't support downvotes - Answered
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if you're on an instance that does not support downvotes, it only displays upvotes. if you're on an instance which does support downvotes it displays both. I'm not really sure how I'm being unclear.
They're asking about the total score. The better way to explain it is that there is not a total score, there is just the upvote count listed as the score. Downvotes and the calculated score based on upvote/downvotes are ignored.
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