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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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Just for completion, here’s my home instance: https://sh.itjust.works/post/14996406

    At the time of posting this comment, I see:

    Instance Upvotes Downvotes Net
    World 57 71 -14
    SDF 71 70 +1
    div by 0 58 70 -12
    SJW 57 70 -13

    Vote federation issues aside, even the most positive value (SDF) is only a narrow win for the upvote result, which is pretty much exactly what I predicted. This is before we even account for users for whom downvotes are not an option.

    I also take issue with the poll being wrapped up prematurely. With the some fluctuation in the federation of votes, and the net number of votes hovering around zero, one could simply wait until the votes tipped in their favour, and close the poll at that time. I’m not saying this is what was done, just that it would be possible.