Really feels like the disjointed and manipulatable nature of voting across Lemmy is going to become more of a problem as more instance admins learn how to abuse it. There are already popular instances that won’t federate downvotes, and that has the effect of making the scores on their instance appear higher overall, which in turn makes it look more active, as well as manipulating the front page content in a non-democratic fashion.
This lack of a shared reality with the scores is going to hamper lemmy as a reddit alternative if there isn’t some kind of standard or attempt to foster a “true score” across all instances.