Comment on The two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance are on Feddit.dk, but you won't see them on your own instance

catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Feddit.dk and any other Lemmy instances do show Mastodon upvotes. It’s not Feddit.dk-specific, it just so happens that Feddit.dk has a couple of comments that went super popular on Mastodon. It’s just random. Maybe try reading the post again, it sounds like you misunderstood something.

  source

  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, I’m definitely not understanding something. You said that Mastodon only sends upvotes to the instance of the user receiving the like, in this case feddit.dk, right? Then why, if I view the post on feddit.dk, does it not show me those likes/votes? What is dependent on my instance?

    source

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then why, if I view the post on feddit.dk, does it not show me those likes/votes? What is dependent on my instance?

      I don’t understand what you mean, how does it now show you the likes? If you see the two comments here and here as I linked above, you can see the high upvote count. Almost all the upvotes are from Mastodon instances.

      source

      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sorry, I mean when I view the comment via my instance. I don’t understand why my instance needs to receive the votes/likes directly, instead of my instance fetching them from feddit.dk when I request the comment.

        source

        • -> View More Comments