this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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My ideal default would be, users have to subscribe to vote, because drive-by downvotes are very common, and keep niche communities from getting anywhere in the
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feed.Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don't pay attention to what community it's posted in. I don't think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it's good future-proofing.
Currently the most popular suggestion is to have a "upvote this post and all it's cross posts” function, which would make that problem worse...
Yeah I dunno, that suggestion seems like it would defeat the entire purpose of having separate communities in the first place.