They are from the whole federation. (Unless you are in a community that has de-federated itself)
Supposedly instances can put it so there are no downvotes, only upvotes so i wonder how that works with this.
Also while i think votes should by default cover all of lemmy it would be cool to see instance and community subscriber votes seperately.
I have the same question
Yes, they’re from the whole fediverse… well, at least from everyone that’s federated with that instance, saw the post, upvoted and/or commented.
It flops back and forth. It tries its best to keep up, but at any given time it’s reflecting … some number of Instances. I imagine this will be improved with further development.
It is really buggy right now, even with 0.18.0 I think there is still the bug that an edit of a comment bumps up the comment count. I’ve been fetching the actual comments off servers and it is often off.
