/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
Oh I see, you were talking about a hypothetical where all instances hide their votes and so no one knows who is voting on anything.
My assumption was that these vote records would remain transparent on most instances because the instances that hide their votes just get defederated, because those are always going to be instances where trolls hide.
If everyone’s votes are public then it seems trivial to see how any particular user votes.
If user shithead69420 downvotes literally everything I post, they’re probably not a good faith user.
Banning trolls would be doable - they’d have patterns where they target specific users across many different communities. If the same user downvotes everything I’ve ever said, from controversial political takes to pictures of food to posts about gardening, that’s probably a malicious user.
But “brigading” doesn’t mean anything and I don’t respect the concept. You can’t ban it because you can’t define it in a way that doesn’t include normal usage of the site.
But they can just be banned from those instances?
Nothing stops defederation, though.
I’m not owned! I’m not owned!
I don’t want anyone staying on Reddit tbh
They can still express their views.
Just not here.
FUTO keyboard isn’t FOSS and that’s a FOSS community. I don’t see what the point of the thread is.
I guess I should just let you beat up on a strawman and ignore it?
That precise “arguing all the fucking time, any time I leave lemmy.ml”
But I don’t! I really enjoy posting on lemmygrad and hexbear too. It’s just whenever I have to interact with reddit.world and other such liberal instances it turns into arguments because we disagree so fundamentally on issues that I am passionate about.
I’m not too stupid to understand the complexity of the wider world. I’m not so arrogant to think people shouldn’t be allowed to disagree with me. Again, what are you even talking about? I’m happy that you libs have your own instances! That’s why I’m on lemmy.ml and not one of the instances that .world defederated from - I want to talk to y’all sometimes, even if we disagree on so many things.
So maybe stop beating up on this strawman?
What is the point of the fediverse having built-in censorship to ban ideas, views, and opinions?
Because that’s what normal people want?
What are you even talking about? I’m on lemmy.ml because it’s still federated with y’all, I just prefer to post in their instance because I don’t always feel like arguing all the fucking time.
There it is.
Your “country” is a collection of mining and timber companies in a trench coat.
They support the USs enemies.
If the first thing that came to mind for them was ‘Fetiverse’ then I think that’s on them.
What are they doing on the internet?
Okay, but that’s why you aren’t a leftist.
Personally, the reason I have an .ml account instead of an account on one of the farther left instances which aren’t federated with .world is because I want to argue with people like you. I welcome the diversity of opinion between leftists and liberals, I deliberately expose myself to it. Liberals keep me sharp without being emotionally exhausting the way people farther to the right are.
Video content is really computationally expensive to play and store. Seems like it requires centralization to make the service fast and responsive with enough storage.
I suppose I could imagine some kind of ephemeral TikTok that deletes videos from storage after a set amount of time. Or a lowfi TikTok that only allows uploads in 240p. Otherwise I just can’t see it.
The liberal wants to preserve some parts of the capitalist tradition while enacting some social reforms. That puts them in the center.
You want to talk about concentration camps? The US has the largest incarcerated population in the world, and it has my entire life, since Clinton introduced the Crime Bill. The prison population almost doubled from 1990 to 2000. That’s liberalism.
You have to be at least anti-capitalist to be a leftist. That’s the bare minimum.
Lemmy liberals are centrists. They favor capitalism with regulations and social welfare.
Oh no, I think defederation is only necessary when an instance becomes a problem. Until piefed.social becomes a haven for trolls to manipulate vote counts (which might never happen) then it’s fine.
But if a dozen anonymized piefed.social votes start downvoting everything I say because they’re monitoring my account then their admins would need to do something about it. If they didn’t, I’d want defederation.