Comment on "ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora"
e569668@fedia.io 1 year agoThere's some relevant discussion here and in the thread linked by ernest in that post here. I don't want to give any wrong information, but I don't think activitypub has a spec for downvotes/reduces/dislikes, just likes and shares (boosting). So on mastodon dislikes definitely aren't federated. I believe for lemmy, they federate between lemmy instances that have them enabled, but for kbin they are local to your instance.
effingjoe@kbin.social 1 year ago
I appreciate the additional information, however, a link found in the codeberg link you provided leads to this comment from earnest:
This seems to imply that downvotes (reduces) are federated. (And notably, upvotes are now "stars" "boosts" are, uh, "boosts".
Or am I totally missing something? That's always and option.
e569668@fedia.io 1 year ago
He did say it would be "federated this week" but in the next comment he made he said that changed "but it turns out it's not easy, and I wouldn't want to make such a big change hastily". I don't think anything has happened since. I definitely almost never see any reduces over here on a different kbin, so I think it's still the same. There is still some discussion in that issue, someone just posted they have a PoC of doing it in a fork for instance.