For upvotes it only shows upvotes from the instances your home instance is federated with, so for a smaller instance there's a chance it has not the same big federation list as some more popular instances and thus show smaller upvote count.
The beehaw and world defederation (which I assume you are referencing) is temporary because beehaw believes the increased traffic cannot be moderated without proper mod tools.
And while you're right about mainstream things like gaming or technology won't have a single main community, I feel more niche communities will be able to setup their main communities. Obviouly that's just my opinion, but there are some signs of that happening already. (c/piracy for example)
Hey, appreciate the gesture but we are not taking any donations at the moment. We want to wait as long as possible before accepting any.
Pretty nice I always like discovering new channels that provide daily/weekly summaries on a particular topic.
For anyone wanting gaming news similar to this, skillup's this week in gaming is very good as well.
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As time goes one community will emerge as the main one while other would dry up and naturally become obsolete (until people get angry with the mods of main one and start looking for alternative community, similar to how there are r/truegaming, r/true(x) etc for popular subreddits.)
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There are many open PRs on lemmy github on how to aggregate similar communities. For example there is a suggestion of making an auto multireddit like thing, m/gaming for example, that would merge posts from every c/gaming community (not sure how this would work with defederation and stuff). With enough demand, something like that can be added to lemmy by an experienced dev.
Right now the best way is to search from inside a lemmy instance itself. lemmy search finds much better results than what native reddit search used to give.
Thanks for the suggestion, will update the wiki with it.
Make sure you're logged in and viewing it from the instance you made the account on, it doesn't show vote counts for logged out users.
Sure and people will ask for ban from there as well, my point was a nsfw community being on nsfw instance makes sense to me.
kinda surprising to see voting is leaning towards ban. if scat won't be on lemmynsfw, where else is it supposed to be in?
Block the community if you don't like the fetish, but banning scat makes no sense to me.
Criticizing and mentioning flaws of a system doesn't automatically make a person against the system.
Accepting the current flaws and then working on their solutions is the way to make Lemmy better for everyone.
comments and upvotes work similarly in the fact that only users from federated instances will show up.
But also yes there is a short delay before comments sync in general too aside from the above fact.