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Are upvotes and downvotes transparent in the fediverse? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by xFxD@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Basically title - will anyone be able to see what I up- and downvoted?

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The way federation works is that when you subscribe, that community gets "pulled in" to your local instance. So when you go to https://myinstance.com/c/community@someotherinstance.com, what's actually happening is that you're interacting with a local cached copy of that community. Your instance then federates your interactions back out regularly, along with any other users from your instance that have interacted.

So, TL;DR: it actually makes perfect sense that the user - vote connection remains local