I've seen this question a number of times since first joining, and never an answer. Also nothing that jumps out in the git pages mentioning it. Perhaps the idea is that because the user has more control in kbin than in Lemmy it's more open to each user's choices. Also, under the federation icon that can turn all federation on or off there's the mysterious "Instances:" that never has anything. Perhaps that's a placeholder for something.
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Darn - I was afraid this might be the case.
I was also wondering what happens if someone from a defederated instance upvotes/downvotes you or your post. Is that even possible?
I am still figuring out this fediverse stuff lol
Kbin federates upvotes but does not federate downvotes. All downvotes are from people on the local instance only.
Lemmy federates both but downvotes only go to other Lemmy instances, not Kbin instances.
It's all a bit crazy, yes.
Ah that explains such a lot!
Several times now I've been puzzled by Lemmings talking about their downvotes when I can't see any.
Right? Same. "All these downvotes" and I'm like fam, what are you on about? I see nothing
people complaining about downvotes always have so many upvotes. it is like begging.
i always find it very strange when someone edits a comment 15 mins after posting to direct a complaint to like 1 person who downvoted them. do they just sit there refreshing the page until the number changes?
I wonder now if this is part of what makes kbin so chill.
Most of us hardly ever downvote each other because our downvotes are public.
But on the lemmys, if they're all downvoting each other (and us) like crazy, we would never even know about it.
Public downvotes really do seem to deflate the whole "I'mma jump on this downvote hate train without talking a nanosecond to read or think about what I'm downvoting" problem. I admit, I was skeptical of the public votes thing when I first arrived here, but I'm growing to like it
Me too. I really like it.
I tried to speculate on an answer, but after several tries I'm not sure now either. Federation is a lot more complex a situation than just a simple ban (perhaps). It doesn't seem an absolute like if you blocked a single user, since communities can be separately blocked and that wouldn't affect an instance user from interaction with a kbin post or user elsewhere.
Pretty sure this isn't currently possible. I've created a feature request on kbin's issue tracker for it.
And there's a pull request for it already. That was quick.
Supposedly it's been rolled out but the proposed URL doesn't seem to be enabled on this instance (https://kbin.social/federation).
Yeah, we haven't had an update in a while. Apparently the next one is going to be pretty big. Ernest said he's aiming for the end of September, but I'm assuming that may slip.
It looks like it is possible on other instances? Beehaw apparently has a list of federated and defederated instances, but it also looks like it might be manually updated by their admins.
Does kbin have something similar?