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How do I know which instances kbin is/is NOT Federated With? (artemis.camp)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry if this has already been asked, but is there a way to know if kbin is or is not federated with another instance? I know there is a way to block domains by typing in https://your kbin instance/d/domain you want to block and blocking them from there, but is there a way to see a list of instances defederated by default?

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right? Same. "All these downvotes" and I'm like fam, what are you on about? I see nothing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Me too. I really like it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.