Is this the typical behaviour of fediverse users? Posts in Apple and Nintendo communities immediately get downvoted by people disliking the companies. Can’t they just block the communities? (media.piefed.social)

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[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

making them unavailable by the API instead.

Votes are available via the API. There is a setting to limit it to your local instance. By default, they federate.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

That's a rather recent change, isn't it? From what I remember the votes were cast by alternate profiles, so even if you tried to grab them from the API you wouldn't know who voted on what.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

It's been around for a while, I don't remember the dates

Basically, this is what it looks like

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

Ah, OK. Thanks for the correction + further info!

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