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Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

That’s really weird actually… I’m browsing my posts both here on Lemmy and on Kbin and there’s a serious discrepancy between the two like take this very post for example, on Kbin I see 25up and 6down whereas on Lemmy I see 26up and 19down. The upvote difference I think is attributed to the fact that Lemmy give you 1up by default and from the looks of things, Kbin doesn’t. What I don’t understand is the difference in downvotes, there’s 13down that aren’t being accounted for on Kbin, I wonder why… 🤔 And it’s not just this post, it’s a lot of my posts, one I made on the Mass Effect community has 17up and 1down on lemmy.world/post/2388125 and on Kbin it’s sitting at 1up and 0down also of note, the amount of comments is off, Kbin has 14 and Lemmy has 18. Very odd. I presume if it’s happening to me, then it’s probably happening to others as well.

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PriorProject@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Kbin doesn’t federate downvotes from Lemmy, and I believe it has a smaller user population than Lemmy (or at least one that generates fewer total downvotes). So you’d expect downvote counts to be wildly different.

On upvote counts, federation is just real flaky right now. I don’t have GitHub issue links handy, but there are several major issues detailing posts, comments, and votes Federating unreliably. You can pretty easily extrapolate that to expect vote counts to vary by 20%-60% from server to server depending on how many federation messages a particular server decided to drop on the floor on any given day.

Lemmy is pretty cool, but it’s a lot rough around the edges right now. It’s improving fast, but if you break out the magnifying glass, you’re gonna find problems.
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- Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I agree that Lemmy and the Fediverse is a really awesome concept and I’m glad to be here. And yeah, I just won’t worry about it then, thanks for being so insightful. You’ve been a big help.
  
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