Yeah that’s the problem here

Look at OPs other posts. They’re just spreading hate.

This isn’t really specific to federated software. The client can go offline but the server can’t. Same applies to all centralized services. The only place this really applies is for decentralized (as in, no central points) systems, and those tend to have a lot of special sauce to make other people being offline less painful

Is that how it works on kbin? Maybe I’ve just never gotten an upvote on my kbin account

You get a notification when you get an upvote?

Encourages users to just add a rotating number or other not too secure thing to their password. I know that’s what I did when I worked somewhere with that dumbfuck policy.