If some things get downvoted way out of proportion, and those downvotes come mostly from people in certain instances, and instances have the power to block each other, it stands to reason some instance out there managed to block the instances that contribute the most downvotes, causing them to have mainly upvotes. Right?
Some instances just disable downvotes. I have no idea exactly how that functions exactly, but I’d guess that matters. IIRC Beehaw and Lemmynsfw have both disabled downvotes. There’s probably more.
To be clear, you can still be heavily downvoted, you just won’t see it.
They disable downvotes on their own instance, which means they also don’t federate downvotes from other instances to their own.
I can still be heavily downvoted on say, lemmy.world, I just won’t see it. People using the instance the downvotes are originating on will see it, however.
beehaw definitely
“how that functions exactly” - well, you just change the code to ignore it when a user does try to downvote something, don’t store it in the database or forward it to other users/servers…
It’s just an option in the admin settings to enable or disable downvotes, no code editing needed
Ah, that is even easier, TIL
Mine disables it also (blahaj.zone).
Depends on the topic.
If you say something against communism you will get a bunch of lemmy.ml downvotes.
As an example
