of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

idk the whole idea of a test is to demonstrate understanding, which this doesn’t. i feel like a good teacher wouldnt take off points, but would have to pull the student aside and be like “ok now circle the tens place, hundreds place, etc”

Full disclosure, I don’t know a ton either, but my guess would be that making even more calls like that would make server load even worse

Addressing what Jamie said as well: they won’t see the downvote on their instance, but you will see it on yours.

My understanding is that each instance has its own copy of every post, comment, and vote total. You might notice that viewing the same post from lemmy.ml vs lemmy.world, it’ll have a different point total, some comments missing, and maybe different comments and posts altogether. This is because when a user interacts with Lemmy, the instance will send out a notification to other instances that the interaction happened–once. If another instance is down or busy and misses the notification, there’s no system in place to correct it later. So when you have a situation like now where a massive influx of users is causing the biggest servers to go down constantly, those notifications are constantly missed. And if you send a downvote to a server that has them disabled, that particular server simply won’t read the downvote.

tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year

Lol I think they were just digging through it desperately looking for chocolate