Given that instances can disable downvoting altogether, it led me to wondering…

  • Andrew@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    I don’t think that would be possible. The API is only sending “post_id” and “score” for votes, so the backend has no info on what feed a user used to send it. An instance could modify their official frontend to hide the ability to downvote from Local and All but they couldn’t do anything about people using different frontends (e.g. all the various phone apps)

    • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeOP
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      1 month ago

      Interesting, thanks! It sounds like you could hide the ability to vote either way then on an instance’s frontend, but as you say, it wouldn’t really do much to address voting activity from either other frontends or instances.