I think you’re just seeing @serfraser@sopuli.xyz’s downvote, they’re on your same instance

As I was able to confirm, looks like anyone else on the same instance can see my downvotes. But not anyone on any other instance, even if they have downvotes too.

Okay so I’ve confirmed it.

When downvoting content on an instance that doesn’t allow downvotes, you can see only the downvotes that come from other users on your instance. I can see two downvotes now, which happened just after I used a second account to downvote.

Downvoted as well. Looks like no since other people have also downvoted you and you’re still at 1

I’ll have to test- maybe other users on my instance can see my downvotes, but they won’t federate because BeeHaw rejects them. And therefore no other instance can see them.

Edit: Okay so I’ve confirmed it.

When downvoting content on an instance that doesn’t allow downvotes, you can see only the downvotes that come from other users on your instance. I can see two downvotes now, which happened just after I used a second account to downvote.

Well you’re a beehaw user. I’m not, and I can actually downvote things here. I’m just not sure if it actually effects anything.

How does it work if a user on another instance (that has downvotes enabled) downvotes comments on BeeHaw.org communities? Are they ignored? Can other instances see them?

Same here - https://lemmy.rogers-net.com

Looking to keep mine small like 100 users (I’ll see how much resources that takes, then decide if I want more) so I don’t incur large bills but want to do my part. Not really anticipating any real “local” community but since everything is federated, you can always subscribe to any communities on any other instances and just live in your “Subscribed” tab, fully enjoying the Lemmy experience like any big instance. And of course users on other instances can use a community you set up here.

Federates with NSFW servers (that don’t have abhorrent content, I defederated/blocked burggit), if that’s something you’re looking for.

and you can have repeats of communities for the same things.

So can Reddit? You could have /r/tech and also /r/technology. How were users supposed to decide? One eventually wins and becomes the big sub.

Same will happen (and already is happening) here.

I think this could help you - https://browse.feddit.de/

Welcome!

Eventually one will become the biggest/most successful. Give it a bit of time.

Same thing that made, for example, /r/technology bigger than /r/tech on reddit.

Though some of the larger Lemmy instances have disabled downvoting.

Media from users of lemmy.ml won’t load. You wouldn’t be able to subscribe to communities on lemmy.ml. But I think every other instance would show cached data and hold any new comments/posts/votes to sync when lemmy.ml comes back up. I’m not sure how long that cache is kept.

It doesn’t really. I’m viewing this post from my instance, which has saved a copy of this post from lemmy.ml

Me viewing this post doesn’t hit lemmy.ml at all, although making this comment will.

I’ve seen a few but they turned out to be Mastodon accounts, which fair enough I suppose

Not really. You can do pretty much everything with one account. You can even become a moderator of another community on a different instance.

Only thing you can’t do is create a new community on a different instance.

You can subscribe to pretty much any community on any instance so you really don’t need to make multiple accounts. You can comment, vote, post, etc on beehaw communities from your lemmy.ml account

We’re just too cool for reposts

The developers have said they’re working on it, this is something the Fediverse supports. Kind of.

If at all possible avoid checking baggage. It can cost more, will force you to wait for it, and can get lost.

And if you must check, being anything you can’t replace with you on the carry on just in case (documents, laptop, etc)

Keep individual servers small and cheap. That’s all we really need. Federation can provide the communities.