I’ve been using Sync for Lemmy in conjunction with this Lemmy.world account since it first hit the Play store on Android.

For the last month or so, I can no longer successfully upvote or downvote posts or comments within the app. This seems to have been around the time or shortly after the votes changed colors from orange/blue to blue/red for a general time reference; I’m not suggesting that update broke anything, but I wouldn’t rule it out.

Anyone else have this problem?

Solution: I had enabled the setting indicating my account as a bot account. I mistakenly thought this meant I wanted to view bot posts, not that I was indicating my account as a bot account.

Thanks all, glad things are working as intended!

    • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      From what I can tell it’s instance based. I believe some have disabled voting altogether.

      For reference and testing. I’m also on sync and I’ll downvote both your top post here and this comment as well as my own.

      • Litany@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Another reason to get off world. I figured it could be something like that.

        Anyone else on Lemmy.world experiencing this on this app?

        • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          Do you see my downvotes on here? Are you sure that the votes that aren’t sticking are all on lemmy.world? There are a literal fuck ton of instances now and you don’t always notice which one you are responding via.

          And if the imaginary numbers mean anything, I’ll revert and upvote you, that wasn’t a statement about your post here, they were a test to see if they stick and to help diagnose.

          • Litany@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            My posts here were negative for a short while so I’m guessing that was you.

            I care less about the imaginary internet points and more about actually upvoting and downvoting things on small communities where one vote actually makes a big difference.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    This can be the result of processing queues filling up. Here’s a link that shows how behind certain instances are on federation.. If you mostly notice remote users/posts/communities not receiving your votes, this could very well have something to do with the problem. The latest Lemmy versions have some performance issues and the occasional spam waves (that you hopefully haven’t noticed but moderators and admins certainly might have) also doesn’t help with processing times.

    Check if votes in the web UI work as you expect. If they work (and are reflected in other apps as well), this may be a Sync issue. If they don’t, check the support channels on your instance instead, there may be some kind of problem with the server configuration.

    Also, and I don’t know if this is related, your account shows up as a bot. If you intend to use your account as a bot that doesn’t really matter but it may affect instances that don’t like bots.

    • Litany@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      It was the bot setting… Thanks for pointing that out.

      I guess I thought toggling that on meant I wanted to view bot posts, not that I was indicating this account as a bot account.

      Thanks!