I heard downvotes expressed a consensus that a comment or post does not hold value in the context of that community. It’s not “shut up” but more “well that’s not relevant”.

I’m surprised most people are against public votes.

It’s okay that you don’t understand why, but it would be best to learn why anonymity is a key requirement for voting freedom, be it in the polls or on social media.

As a comment on the other discussion says, there’s a reason ballots are secret.

I accept if a dozen people can see my votes.

That’s not what you’re saying.

Ultimately I’m not invested in this decision. If the instance wants to watch people vote then people stop voting truly or at all.

Anecdotes are cool.

If I can’t vote privately then I don’t vote.

They should put the rest of the nails in this coffin. Go full clique.

Yay for influence farming!

There’s an adage about fixating on popularity as a measure of worth.

opwn source

I’m stealing this term.

I’d opt into targeted ads for a federated S-O service, personally. The site is a huge database and needs safe-keeping, and that’s not free or even cheap. Tastefully placed ads that don’t pop over or ruin the printed copy I’d totally go for.

Benefit of

You mean ‘Benefit from’, here, right?

I think it may have a problem on some screens.

Trainspotting.

I love the idea of a centralized authority system for a de-centralized medium. It’s like the heel on Achilles.

I’m not sure what you’re on about. For me, reddit is “that thing that shows up in searches where I get the cached page” and not part of my life at all.

I didn’t even bother to delete my posts. Fuck 'em. Let the bot be trained on me correcting halfwits who don’t know e-mail isn’t pluralized with an S or trying to get people to grow up about development and security. It seems the only thing their bots will get from me is better spelling and an aversion to flatpak.

If you wanna go on reddit and recommend a single Lemmy discussion as the answer to their problem, then do it. It’s like linking to a stackOverflow answer. Maybe they’ll stay once they find out it’s different here. Cool.

I’m okay with it not being a movement. I’m glad I left reddit, like I was glad to leave its predecessors for reddit. I can hope for a long existence on the fediverse. Maybe we can be a good place for people to go, and we not try to think for them, okay? We know we’re right and we came to that conclusion oirselves, so let others do the same.

I’ll probably feel differently about it in a month, but right now this is like paddling against the tide.

literally

Next.

I work with a product enjoying a 27 year support window.

That’s WAY more than 2 days.

I remember when ‘literally’ wasn’t the only adverb people knew.

The instance has been down several times over the past few days?

That reads like a statement but you’re asking a question.

Did ‘show read posts’ suddenly stop working?