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They don’t actually give a shit about Charlie Kirk. They just want a catalyst for their enabling acts.

Needs more void*

Presumably the average temperature of the room pre fart Includes the gas in your colon.

People are missing that the fart is under pressure in the body. Increasing the gas volume from your colon to the room while keeping the mass of gas the same will produce a drop in mean enthalpy due to the reduction in mean gas pressure.

Normalize office masterbation.

Am I allowed to be naked as long as the door is closed?

What is the time code for micromanaging my calendar to fend off pointless meetings?

This is my new slack pfp

Yes basically all of our machines are Linux.

Test driven development means you write the test case first and then never write any additional tests.

The part I hate is how many overconfident internet technicians will be like “well ackshually the metaphor isn’t that far off” completely missing the very important difference between an information channel and a power channel and what the capacity limits are for each.

For example, free space is a pretty great information channel, but it absolutely sucks for reliably transmitting fluids.

Again, it’s shocking how on this singular issue, we find “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” acceptable.

Yes that thread is quite literally just describing forum politics, based on a very small amount of feedback from a select group of individuals discussing the matter in back channels.

Simply put, admins were not satisfied just banning the agents for voting and the user for commenting. This is entirely a perception issue and caused no actual problems besides feels. This caused the implementation of trusted instances which was actually a flawed concept. Rather than iteration on the idea, the pressure from other admins caused it to be abandoned unceremoniously with almost zero input from users. I’m not sure how you can interpret this as anything other than forum politics.

I agree, except we should leave the basic mechanic and just make it a placebo.

Nobody sets out to be doxxed, but it happens. And as it stands on the fediverse, when it happens the consequences are potentially even greater because all activity is available to all subscribers. All I am asking is for these simple facts to be acknowledged when we have this discussion. The potential risk profile for using Lemmy is greater than reddit in many ways. My frustration with how people approach this conversation is that they all too frequently dismiss or ignore this simple fact.

It doesn’t need to be like this though. There are simple ways to mitigate this, but people are weirdly hostile to them, and I believe it is specifically because they do not acknowledge this additional risk.

Piefed literally already implemented voting agents and it worked fine until forum politics killed it.

Public votes do absolutely nothing to stop people from making a bunch of users on a bunch of instances and voting from those users. Voting agents are a simple solution to the issue, since you can still just ban the voting agent if it seems problematic.

But there’s a deeper context here, which is we are drawing a weird line between voting being a fundamental, if not critical part of the application, but also apparently grounds for imposing sanctions on users for doing it wrong? That’s a fundamentally flawed mechanic no matter how you swing it, since you can’t standardize any singular set of rules, and we are already seeing a rapid escalation of tit for tat vote bans. This is just unsustainable and is pushing things towards an obvious endpoint where there is such a chilling effect on voting that it negates the entire utility of the mechanic for sorting and content curation.

Piefed did it with voting agents and it worked fine. The reason they rolled it back was just forum politics, because admins didn’t like not knowing who was voting, even though they could just ban the agent if they wanted. This, incidentally is just more reason to hate the idea of public votes.

I don’t understand why everyone is so dismissive of this being a problem. Especially considering it is easily mitigated using simple voting agents.

It’s not just a privacy concern either, I promise you that trolls love being able to see which accounts are engaging with them in order to target certain demographics. Like we know this kind of shit has been used to manipulate elections already, and people here are just like “well I guess that’s just the world now.”

Reddit is one entity, and by providing a service it is bound by a variety of privacy and data protection regulations. On the fediverse anyone can accumulate any of that information and store it for years, and they are not bound by any such data management or privacy laws. It’s absolutely shocking to me that a place which is otherwise quite obsessed with privacy just brushes aside this distinction. As it stands a vote on the fediverse is far more likely to have real consequences versus one on reddit if, say, ones phone is searched at a border.

This could be mitigated considerably with simple voting agents, as piefed tried to do, but this idea was killed by idiotic forum politics over fears of “vote manipulation.”

Yes, this is not hyperbole - the otherwise “privacy focused” leaders of the fediverse are more concerned with fake Internet points than real privacy concerns.