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What's the plan for downvote federation? (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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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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[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@CoffeeAddict I might be wrong but I think boosts are more important when we interact with Mastodon?

[-] tjhart85@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

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!"

this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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