Something has been preventing all the servers and users from showing up on join-lemmy.org for the last couple days. I sent Des a DM about it yesterday before I realized you were the one managing it. 😅
Lemmy is an open-source social network that functions as a global web of independent forums, allowing you to interact with a federation of sites where no single entity holds total control.
Edit: I think it flows a little better without "next-generation" so I removed it.
Nah I want the inline thing where you can see stacked profile pictures.
Cool.
Have you approached the devs about it through GitHub or anything? If there is support from others maybe it's something they'd consider adding. If not you should start there since you're basically left doing it yourself or living with it otherwise.
Since the software is open source people are free to develop and change it how they see fit. If it doesn't work how you want it to, change it.
There are tools to view the voting data if you so desire. Lemvotes allows everyone to see voting data, and moderators and admins are able to see the data from within Lemmy.
Additionally, downvoting can be completely disabled at the instance level by admins. If you find them to be a distraction or an annoyance you might want to try one that has them disabled.
They exist but they're supposed to be labeled. There's an account setting to mark an account as a bot. Anyone deploying them in good faith should be flagging them appropriately.
The info has been on their sidebar for years now.
https://lemmy.world/post/11967676