Buggy looking behaviour observed, when I view a post on another instance or make a post on another instance then go back to viewing it, in front of my eyes, I can see massive disparities in the amount of upvotes and downvotes. Talking a post showing 600 upvotes then a few seconds later, 5 upvotes, then 40 etc
I think it’s a federation issue. Maybe it first shows local count and then gets updated with federation counts from other servers?
I’ve noticed the same, certainly seems like a bug.
Yeah this happened on some reddit clients as well it’s very interesting
On Reddit it was deliberate. That way bot users had a more difficult time to tell if their vote got counted (as they try to circumvent bot blocking and do vote brigading).
Here on Lemmy it’s probably just a bug due to high server load.
You should report it as an issue on the issue tracker on GitHub https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui. I’ve been experiencing it as well, but I’m not sure how to word it
