Based on a true story:
You know what everyone knows, but nobody is willing to say? People with even numbered birthdays are responsible for all of society’s ills.
The year, day or month?
Afaik voting is not federated so you always just see the “local reaction”.
I don’t think so. You see the votes from all federated instances which can still differ
Are you sure? I occasionally see people complain about downvotes while having 0 downvotes.
So you only see votes from instances that are federated with that instance.
If instance A is not federated with instance B, but they’re both federated with instance C, looking at a post on instance C from instance A will not show votes from instance B. But looking at it on instance C will show both A and B’s votes.
As for complaints, it’s paranoia. I’ve seen people on .world complain about Hexbear downvoting en mass, and HB doesn’t even have downvotes, and even if they did, .world wouldn’t see them since they’re not federated.
I run my own instance for just my self and I see different counts.
Federation is pretty buggy and very often you just won’t see eg. votes or even comments from federated instances even when you should be seeing them
Hell, sometimes even posts don’t federate. There was a period of a few days where Lemmy.World’s federation was messed up, and all my posts here from that period are some of the least-upvoted in this community. I figure those posts just never made it outside of Lemmy.World, or at least past anyone not directly browsing the community.
Like, I thought this post was pretty good, but it only got a handful of votes, and only a few of the comments were from accounts outside Lemmy.World.
Oh yeah definitely, I don’t know why I left posts out because the same problem affects everything that’s supposed to be federated
