Federation works great for a lot of use cases, but as a result of that it requires a lot of unencrypted metadata to pass through several servers in order to route a message properly. If your primary concerns are about walled gardens and fragmentation, Matrix is a great choice. If you’re mainly worried about privacy, signal’s lack of federation makes your communications more private.
AntennaRover
joined 2 years ago
I do wonder if it’s entirely disabled or just on the default web interface. The Mlem app still gives me the option to downvote things.
I don’t even necessarily disagree with the sentiment of not having downvotes on a platform, but it seems weird to give that up as one server on a federated network, considering anyone from other instances could presumably still downvote posts on here.
It looks like the lemmy.one instance disables the downvote button. My other account on lemmy.ml has it enabled.
If you don’t have the time/interest in setting up NextCloud, CryptPad replicates a lot of the functionality of Google Docs/Drive, though to get more 1GB of storage you will have to subscribe.