The Four Best Reddit Alternatives
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As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.
    • lemillionsocks@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It feels really poorly researched. Like some instances disable downvotes like beehaw does but we still have upvoting.

      • InEnduringGrowStrong@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’ve been here for maybe a day now, so salt accordingly.
        As far as I can tell, even though beehaw has downvotes disabled, since the instance I use has them enabled, I could still technically downvote you, at least in the UI.
        You’d just never know and it would not show on your end or for anyone viewing from beehaw.org.
        The part I’m not so sure about is if they would show for others on the same instance as me.
        I think depending on where a third person would be viewing this thread from they would see different numbers of upvotes.
        I certainly notice a few differences while reading from a different instance vs browsing the original instance directly.
        Learning lemmy has been pretty interesting.

        • MaienM@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          1 year ago

          They would show for others on your instance, but not for people on other instances, so each instance will have a separate downvote counter.

          • InEnduringGrowStrong@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Thanks, that tracks with what I’ve seen so far and discussions like these have helped me understand this whole thing a bit better. My first foray was a bit confusing because I initially joined on sh.itjust.works but tried to browse a community on beehaw, not knowing about the defederation, which isn’t too obvious for a newcomer.