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OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week agoK/Mbin has a system where upvotes coincide with “Increases”, and downvotes with “Reduces”, separately from the algorithm. People just found it confusing though.
Emoji reactions may help a bit… except that Lemmy users don’t even see those, much less use instead of voting. And if we added them to the sorting system, them we would just be speed-running exactly the process that Reddit went through.
Sorry I am not offering real solutions here just further discussion on the topic. Doesn’t PieFed also allow voting to be restricted to subscribers within a community? I feel like that would help a TON at least for drive-by voting from All, although I thought PieFed already offers it, yet I do not know how many communities use it or not.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 week ago
Yes, but that won’t impact lemmy users.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
So how does that work: Lemmy users can still vote, with only users of some other PieFed instance but who are not subscribed to a community being blocked? Or Lemmy users will see a different vote count that includes all whereas PieFed’s vote counts will be the subset of only subscribers?
The latter seems perfectly fine to me.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 week ago
Lemmy users could vote, but my assumption would be that their downvote simply would not federate out to other instances. Their downvote would be reflected in the local count on their instance.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
Ah, so it will affect some, possibly even most Lemmy users - those on a difference instance? Still, I agree that it’s not ideal to mess with the votes in that manner, it would be better to block the vote as if the user were banned, but I suppose that is up to Lemmy to decide how they want to handle their own side of the situation (i.e. for the local instance to not confirm the vote with the recipient instance where the community is located).