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As a disabled person, I face ableism and ableist language every day. Some people use ableist language without even knowing that it is ableist. I thought it would be good for folks to take a look at the attached BBC article and expand their perspectives a bit.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wrt not federating all downvotes, you sure that's not because the commenter or poster is from an instance that disables downvotes? If they disable downvotes, then all downvotes will only be localized to your instance (i.e. every downvote you'll see on that comment/post is from kbin.social users, and me, lemmy.ca users)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, there's definitely more to it than that. I don't fully understand, but to give you an example, @ram, here are screenshots of how your comment about kbin above looks to me:

From visiting your instance, not signed in

From kbin

From my test account at lemmy.world

(All sorted by old). As you can see, the voting is very different viewed from kbin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh that's really interesting. I wonder why that is then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@ram

Not sure, I've only been able to find snippets of dev discussion on it but as far as I can tell it's part of Ernest's philosophy.

He used to have the upvote button mean sharing and the "boost" button for upvotes, but he reconfigured it because we all got too confused.

This way we can never vote brigade, or be brigaded either, I guess?

But kbin is still being built, it's a lot newer than Lemmy, so who knows what the future holds. It's interesting that different instances will have a wildly different picture about whether a comment is popular though.