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?
  • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.socialOP
    1·
    10 months ago

    Out of curiosity, how would the current system be preferable to specific reactions? The whole idea of “we should only count downvotes on our instance” only makes sense if everyone on our instance is using downvotes in a more reserved manner, which isn’t the case for everyone. Different people on kbin.social use the downvote button in different ways, and that’ll be even more so as the instance grows. If we really want to preserve this voting culture we have, wouldn’t it be better in every way to replace downvotes with reactions specific to how we’d want downvotes to be used?

    • livus@kbin.social
      3·
      10 months ago

      @ThatOneKirbyMain2568 like I said, it’s my second preference.

      If you’re asking why it’s not my first choice, the answer’s partly that I’m happy with the status quo for reasons I’ve already gone into, and partly pragmatism.

      @ernest has a really long to-do list and figuring out how to implement it in a way that wouldn’t undermine the report button or do something crazy e.g to reputation is probably not the best use of his time right now.

      • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        10 months ago

        Definitely agree that Ernest has a ton to do and implementing a whole new system shouldn’t rlly be the top of his priority list. If it’s too impractical, I’d prefer that downvotes just federate instead of the unintuitive system we currently have, but I’ve already discussed that at length.