Leaving a reaction emoji automatically causes an upvote to be given to the post, even if I’ve already downvoted the post.

I don’t know if this behaviour is intentional or a side-effect of the reaction not being a first-class supported feature of lemmy, but could this be fixed? It means sometimes I have upvoted posts that are objectionable simply because I left a reaction emoji on them.

Thanks!

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7·
    24 days ago

    Might be for compatibility reasons with the wider Fediverse?

    Lemmy made an early decision to reuse “likes”/“stars” from Mastodon as upvotes and this comes with certain down-sides as they are really not the same.

    • Rimu@piefed.socialMEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      Yep.

      It’s pretty awkward because of the issues OP raised but it was a quick and easy way to get something working with minimal breakage that would be fine 90% of the time. Sometimes that’s good enough for a first attempt.

      As a small project with minimal influence, building something that only works with other PieFed instances kinda dooms that something to irrelevance. If Lemmy ever adds proper vote-independent emoji reactions PieFed would switch to that method immediately.