Is there a setting for instances to disable voting from Local or All feeds? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Given that instances can disable downvoting altogether, it led me to wondering...

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

We're adding more fine-grained voting settings, but it's a few releases away.

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the heads-up on this! Didn't realize that was in the works

[-] andrew_s@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

I think lemmynsfw stopped people who weren't subscribed to a community from voting in it (because their communities for gay people were getting a lot of downvotes from All). If that's what you mean. I think it was a hack rather than a setting though (my info might be out of date)

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's along the lines of what I'm asking about, albeit instead of a subscription check more like, I think, however the instances disabling/removing downvoting have done so, but adjusting the scope strictly to the Local or All views.

Another approach to addressing outsider/passive voting behaviors.

[-] andrew_s@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

I don't think that would be possible. The API is only sending "post_id" and "score" for votes, so the backend has no info on what feed a user used to send it. An instance could modify their official frontend to hide the ability to downvote from Local and All but they couldn't do anything about people using different frontends (e.g. all the various phone apps)

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting, thanks! It sounds like you could hide the ability to vote either way then on an instance's frontend, but as you say, it wouldn't really do much to address voting activity from either other frontends or instances.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

It’s definitely an interesting and relevant idea I think! A major flaw here is the lack of ability for communities to establish themselves as discrete spaces desperate from the doomscrolling crowd.

A problem with the fediverse on the whole IMO, as community building is IMO what it should be focusing on.

Generally decentralisation makes things like this difficult, AFAIU. Lemmy has things like private and local only communities in the works that will get you there. But then discovery becomes a problem which probably requires some additional features too.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I guess communities should have an easy way to hide themselves from Local/All feeds

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yea. Even nicer if it could be adjusted on a post-by-post basis (however viable that is).

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