As lemmy is a Foss and privacy respecting platform built on that ethics and morals it is only right the clients following those morals should be the most promoted and used. In the past you may have needed proprietry apps or tools but the need is no more as more foss apps and tools that can cater to everyones taste for all platforms are available now ( see the megathread ) there is no need to use proprietry apps which are privacy nightmares and tracks, pushes ads. etc and also if a proprietry app dev decides to collect data there is no wayto know or if they close development the app is gone but with foss someone will fork it . In the past this sub has allowed posts about proprietry apps and tools those posts will stay as it is and you can interact with it but posting any new one will lead to warning and then ban this decision was made as a community by conducting a poll.

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      • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        Do you have the direct links to the same post at those instances? You might just be viewing the vote count from your instance at reddthat.com (which is fine but that’s just the votes from your instance).

        The votes at the community’s home instance should be the correct ones e.g. whatever link that is at lemmy.world but I don’t have that one either.

      • THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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        7 months ago

        I don’t know but as i hosted in that acc and people who federate with it can upvote it but the upvotes maybe missing ftom other inatances because of federation issues

        • Blaze@reddthat.com
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          7 months ago

          That’s probably what is happening. It might be a good idea to invalidate this poll as the results don’t seem stable, and start another discussion to see if it even needs to happen.

          I know you got this community recently, but you seem to be pushing for changes that are not supported by a majority of the community (be it 71-69 or 57-70)

          • THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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            7 months ago

            It is not for any gains as i am not a dev or built any foss apps . I am just trying to help and motivate people to use better apps and tools. And it was 71- 65 when i wrapped the thread i think people from this thread ia contributing now.

            • Blaze@reddthat.com
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              7 months ago

              See it from the community perspective.

              I am pretty tolerant towards non FOSS clients for Lemmy. Sync and Boost allowed a lot of people to join Lemmy, and they still use those apps everyday.

              I follow and sometimes contribute to the community because I think it’s nice to have a central place to see the latest updates, FOSS or not. The community wasn’t actively moderated, but people didn’t care because the topic is pretty much conflict free

              Then someone like you or another person jumps in and pushes for only FOSS to be allowed, while a post from a week ago about a Boost update has 34 upvotes and 4 downvotes.

              We all want Lemmy to succeed, but we also have to accept opinions of other people in how to do so and manage this kind of cross-Lemmy communities