So you only see votes from instances that are federated with that instance.
If instance A is not federated with instance B, but they’re both federated with instance C, looking at a post on instance C from instance A will not show votes from instance B. But looking at it on instance C will show both A and B’s votes.
As for complaints, it’s paranoia. I’ve seen people on .world complain about Hexbear downvoting en mass, and HB doesn’t even have downvotes, and even if they did, .world wouldn’t see them since they’re not federated.
Hexbear brigades with alts on instances which do have downvotes. I am currently running a test instance which attempts to track this (I will post results in a couple of months) and it’s very obvious in some cases that this is happening. There are like 16 or 17 users I’ve found so far which do nothing but downvotes posts engaged with mostly .ml accounts on certain topics.
So you only see votes from instances that are federated with that instance.
If instance A is not federated with instance B, but they’re both federated with instance C, looking at a post on instance C from instance A will not show votes from instance B. But looking at it on instance C will show both A and B’s votes.
As for complaints, it’s paranoia. I’ve seen people on .world complain about Hexbear downvoting en mass, and HB doesn’t even have downvotes, and even if they did, .world wouldn’t see them since they’re not federated.
Hexbear brigades with alts on instances which do have downvotes. I am currently running a test instance which attempts to track this (I will post results in a couple of months) and it’s very obvious in some cases that this is happening. There are like 16 or 17 users I’ve found so far which do nothing but downvotes posts engaged with mostly .ml accounts on certain topics.