ml seems to be coming a bit unwound. They have been super ban happy lately but enforce the rules very unevenly. Hexbears can post pig shit gifs, but citing mainstream political science gets you banned pretty reliably if you do it under the wrong gaze. It really is starting to look more and more like fediverse cancer.
thanks for the tech details. It sucks that there’s no endpoint for upvotes (yet). I find favorites/saved and upvoted to be distinctly different at least the way I use it. Upvotes communicate to me (and others) that content is of value or that I agree with it. However Saved/Favorite may mean that I disagree with content but I’d like to keep reference for future times. That latter is a private info too so nobody benefits from me “saving” that content other than myself.
TLDR; I’d have to get used to hitting upvote and “save” buttons on content of interest and learn to filter through my “saved” stuff while devs are comming up with endpoints for upvotes.
Lemmy doesn’t seem to provide any API to expose these details. If you run your own server, it’s not hard to get a list of posts, but you’ll have to wait for Lemmy to provide the necessary endpoints before you can list upvotes.
A person who runs the instance blocks ones that may be deemed as unsafe, you can further block users and sometimes instances depending on the instance (But this will only block it for your view)
If the Instance displays it publicly than yes overwise no
Mastodon is more towards what Twitter is like, as Lemmy is more towards Reddit, Crossover for them can be done on things like Kbin/Mbin but they are confusing to begin with. If you have a certain Social Media you like we can most likely find a Fediverse version
When viewing an instance’s main page in a web browser, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on “Instances”. That will show all instances federated with, or blocked by, the given instance.
I’m not sure I can answer your other questions, though you might be interested in https://fba.ryona.agency. It will let you enter an instance and see who is blocking it. For example, here are the instances blocking my home instance, sh.itjust.works: https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=sh.itjust.works
Mastodon and Lemmy are both using the ActivityPub protocol (Lemmy uses some extensions to federate downvotes and some other actions) to communicate between instances, but the API to interrogate a Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed or kbin instance will be different.
This is exactly what I am looking for. I am interested also in how other federated applications do it. I had a look at Pixelfed’s documentation, but they don’t seem to have an API for that… Do you know anything about other services?
Is this a feature a developer for any Lemmy client can code and implement themselves, because the data is already there, just not filtered and used for this kind of statistic?
Or is it something that has to be implemented on the server/instance first, in order to answer my first question with yes?
I think it’s just not implemented because the devs didn’t know it was an important feature to prioritize. It does supposed saved posts, which I imagine is what the devs anticipated was most useful for users.
Gotta keep in mind we’re just about to get 0.19.0, it’s not even v1 yet so a lot of things are still missing.
But yes the data exists, in fact I have the vote history of everyone my instance has seen in the communities I’m subscribed to.
This is the fediverse, everything has to be public and auditable otherwise vote manipulation would be easy.
If you want to really be anonymous, your best bet is to use multiple accounts on multiple instances. If you upvote sketchy stuff, use the anonymous account, and otherwise, use your regular more public account.
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