How does downvote disabling work between federated instances?
How does downvote disabling work between federated instances?
Context: I use Liftoff as my mobile client. I have accounts on blahaj.zone and lemmy.world. When I'm logged in on blahaj.zone on desktop, there is no downvote button. It appears on Liftoff.
I understand that downvote-disabled instances don't accept downvotes from downvote-enabled federated instances, but does this work in reverse? Can beehaw or blahaj.zone accounts downvote content on lemmy.world, etc?
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What reason would there be to disable downvotes?
It's vital to filter out the garbage
It’s a top level config option and many instances do it.
It can also be used as a form of semi-covert harassment. For example, in an early instance, every bit of content posted by or in support of transgender people would get hit by a barrage of downvotes from brigaders using otherwise inactive accounts. Hard to moderate that without just disabling downvotes entirely.