What's the plan for downvote federation?
ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 16 points – Right now, downvotes (reduces) don't federate to (and from?) Kbin instances. This lack of federation makes the downvote counter really inaccurate—a comment that looks like it's +10 might be -15 when you look at it from lemmy.world.
This leaves me with a few questions:
- Is downvote federation going to be implemented?
- If so, is it a priority or something that'll happen much further down the line?
- If not, will downvoting be removed?
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I think this is an interesting concept.
Lemmy users don’t have boosts, so they would not be able to deliver “two upvotes” but I also think kbin shouldn’t be limited by what lemmy can or cannot do.
Having both sorting algorithms for both upvotes and boosts available as a sort option might be the most fair way forward.
@CoffeeAddict I might be wrong but I think boosts are more important when we interact with Mastodon?
A boost is effectively a retweet. The thing you boost gets re-shared from you to the people that follow you ... the stuff I boost with this account is gets added to my feed on my Mastodon account. You're basically saying "damn, I love this comment and want to make sure everyone else gets a chance to see it too!"