Or…. “Typical”…. 😉

This is a stupid question.

I assure you that’s not the case anymore

When you edit your comment all you’re doing is adding a “new” comment, the old comment is flagged to not show and the new comment shows in its place.

This achieves nothing.

You might be dying. Idk

This is stupid, why can’t I just point it at my interpreter? Oh, right, money. smh

You mean like my friend fiction? Like the story where the whole basketball team becomes zombies and then they all fight over dating me?

Butts butts, I love butts.

For those unaware, you swipe to access voting/reply on comments, swipe from left to right on a comment to get to the up/down vote and swipe right to left to reply.

On your inbox, you can mark replies “read” by far swiping right to left.

You can also swipe to go back to your feed back swiping left to right starting from the edge of the post.

Lastly you can access settings by clicking the “gear” icon in your profile screen (top right)

Due to how federation works, the federated instance needs to accept and process the activity. Each application can define its own “optional” activity properties, but the activitypub specs define mandatory properties and some optional properties for coherence across the fediverse.

The way lemmy implements this is to use the activitypub-federation-rust library that the lemmy devs built. Through this, activities in Lemmy are sent using HTTP and have a failure retry:

It is possible that delivery fails because the target instance is temporarily unreachable. In this case the task is scheduled for retry after a certain waiting time. For each task delivery is retried up to 3 times after the initial attempt. The retry intervals are as follows:

one minute, in case of service restart
one hour, in case of instance maintenance
2.5 days, in case of major incident with rebuild from backup

In the case of votes, the activity is a “like” - some other federated applications understand this and will accept it, but others won’t. For example, peertube does not have a like activity, and I don’t believe they would handle it.

However votes are shared across instances. When a user “likes” something from another instance, Lemmy will notify that actor (the page) that the activity (a like) was emitted by another actor (you).

Hope that clarifies things. I’m still learning all this myself so if anyone can contribute or improve my answer, please do!