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Fedia.io appears to have a pretty complete history of comments and posts. Lemmyverse.net reports 78 posts, and that’s about how many posts picks up. It doesn’t see the votes, however.

Granted, I haven’t tested the order in which votes are fetched. Maybe comments and posts get priority over votes, and if a user unsubscribes, that terminates fetching votes.

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On lemmyverse.net, the community statistics read:

90 subscribed users. 1.9k active users.

That ratio is pretty dramatically out-of-whack with all other communities on lemmyverse. That’s sufficient to place it in the top 100 communities on the Threadiverse by active users, which I believe includes vote activity.

But it has only 90 subscribers, which is way down the list.

The subscriber count I can believe, for a new community. But for the active user count to be that high, there’d need to be a very high proportion of user account activity, with few subscriptions.

EDIT: Additionally, if one sorts by active weekly users, every other community shown on the same visible page in the lemmyverse community list – the communities with a roughly comparable active user rate – has between an order of magnitude and two orders of magnitude more comments. So basically, very few of these users could be commenting, but a high proportion would need to be voting.

EDIT2: Okay, moist.catsweat.com is another mbin instance that has indexed the community. Unlike fedia.io, that instance does have votes for the past few posts, and while there are a lot of upvotes relative to comments, one can see the users users doing so, and they appear to be real users, not bots. It’s a lot of upvotes for a new community, but that could be just unusual, and I’d believe that the propagation of votes is due to lemmy quirks.

Sorry, @Deceptichum@quokk.au. Just didn’t want to have spammers abusing the system. This is probably legit; I’ll withdraw my concerns.