Okay, yeah, I see now how it can be misinterpreted when taken out-of-context

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You know what everyone knows, but nobody is willing to say? People with even numbered birthdays are responsible for all of society's ills.
- Is this some reference I am not familiar with?
- This checks out.
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.
- that doesnt sound right at all
- It definitely is, but there are several instances which do not federate downvotes
- The post and comment votes do federate, but it's not particularly reliable. No clue why though. That's a bit outside my wheelhouse and there is nothing in the documentation about post voting.
  
  Another user explained why I likely saw the discrepancy. Though, aside from that, federation generally is very much wonky and unreliable unfortunately.
- If the community's server does not track downvotes, then indeed, everyone just sees downvotes by users local to their home instance. Otherwise, downvotes work the same as upvotes - that is, somewhat reliably - unless your frontend or user instance hides them but that's your problem.
- If it does work, that's pretty cool!
  
  I'd love to know if like, the lemmy instance catering towards Americans upvotes me, but the lemmy instance catering towards Europeans downvote me.
You're obviously promoting the website with r that shall not be named!? Downvoted! /s

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