Is that different between instances? On lemmy.world there's a little [-] to the right of the commenter's name you can click to collapse the thread below that point. It's a bad place for it, but it works.
I noticed it's only arrows if there are zero downvotes. As soon as something has a down vote then the numbers appear. Which makes sense I suppose. No point having zero sitting there at all times.
But my eye is very naturally drawn to the number next to the arrow (Probably because years of Reddit and also because it's the part where I interact) so having it there sometimes and sometimes not is a small annoyance
That seems to work yes, but still that number seems to go all over the place sometimes (a bit before this post had over 400 upvotes, and a few seconds later it is back at 6 again). The hover number does stay the same, though.
Yeah I was wondering about the numbers changing. Is that because of the federation (sometimes the server sums up all the federated votes and other times not)?
How is this supposed to work if I'm looking at this thread from somewhere like kbin? On my side I just see upvote/downvote arrows and a number? How does all of that work when the comment is pulled into here?
The data that will be the same everywhere is basically everything that is described according to the ActivityPub protocol.
Everything else can be calculated and displayed by the server or frontend, so that's where most of the differences arise.
In this case, we likely won't see it on kbin, unless whatever app or frontend we're using implements it. Someone also may create a plugin or add-on you can install on your browser to add it as a feature.