A downvote isn’t “I don’t think this should be here”. It’s just “I don’t like this”, don’t agree, thing it’s bad/wrong, whatever. Up/downvote systems work under the process of the wisdom of the crowd, and as a result, works under the assumption that while the ways in which people use these tools and the reasons may be different, having a simply up/downvote system means they’ll average out into something more useful. It doesn’t work all the time of course, but it does work generally.

People just found it not unfunny or distasteful. This post is getting downvoted because it comes off as whiney and annoying.

The strange aversion to moderation by means of defederation.

I think what @[email protected] is trying to explain is that Mastodon and Lemmy for example may be able to implement Sup as a part of their softwares too. Currently if you try to DM someone on Lemmy, the options are a Matrix redirect, or Private Messages designated as not secured.

Though I do wonder about the viability of this. People would still need to set up with Sup to receive messages, at least as I understand it. As a result, this would run into a similar problem as matrix, just without needing to use a different federated server and login I suppose.

This would also require that project leads for AP softwares would want to accept the service as a part of their distribution, assuming it even is implmented in such a manner.

TL;DR it’s hard to say anything for certain when details seem to be slim.

Sup Bro?

That wasn’t your question.

No, it wouldn’t.

WriteFreely would be your best bet of what exists. However, the communities are small between instances, and there’s not any search algorithm or anything to my knowledge.

With what currently exists on the Fediverse, I think that having a WriteFreely and posting what you write to: your own Lemmy community; a Mastodon account; a Pixelfed account; depending on your needs and use, would be the best way of going about it within the current ecosystem as it exists.

This is where I’m at with Discord :/

I’ll be your reference if you’ll be mine.

I’m simply suggesting it as an option, not as the entire thing. Nothing would stop people from having their own instances, and as far as the local governments front, they would likely each have their own criteria for joining, if any.

This is the only way I could realistically see an actual “public square of the internet”

Oh ya, I had to upscale it to be workable and that’s just how the upscaling algo worked on it.

After that I clipped all the images and super-imposed some over others.

But it would have still kept those blessed ad impressions rolling in, unabated.

It sounds to me like you may just hold some genuinely distasteful opinions. I’ve been “victim” of mass downvoting before, and more often than not it’s a result of me stupidly speaking out of ignorance. Try not doing that, and maybe pay less attention to your internet points and more on the quality of discussion. For instance, you should consider the value of this discussion wherein you tell people how to “properly use” Upvotes/Downvotes from a prescriptive lens.

In my experience, the Upvote/Downvote system generally works in large threads, even if people have their own philosophies by which they choose to use the functions; the very principal of the Wisdom of the crowd is the means by which it functions. Of course when others come to interrupt this by means of brigading/raiding/whatever the current terminology is for this behaviour, things go off kilter, but having a large prescriptive agreement as to how you should go about Upvoting/Downvoting is no cure for intentional disruption.

Someone posted the picture of the original PS5 TOTK skin. I saw it and was like “ya and they’ll play Horizon” since that and BOTW get compared a ton.

Huffman says. “It was never designed to support third-party apps.” According to Huffman, he “let it exist,” and “I should take the blame for that because I was the guy arguing for that for a long time.”

If Statement A and B are both true, is this just not the absolute failure of the former jailbait advocate as CEO? Should Reddit not have been designed to support third-party apps if you, as CEO are advocating for them? This entire interview just feels like the king incel’s trying to gaslight us into believing it’s a lost cause. If so, we might as well continue, eh?

Their stats page also admits that they’ve lost >15% of their top 5000 communities. I wonder how that’d translate if we looked at the top 100 or top 50?

Huffman says. “It was never designed to support third-party apps.” According to Huffman, he “let it exist,” and “I should take the blame for that because I was the guy arguing for that for a long time.”

If Statement A and B are both true, is this just not the absolute failure of the former jailbait advocate as CEO? Should Reddit not have been designed to support third-party apps if you, as CEO are advocating for them?

This entire interview just feels like the king incel’s trying to gaslight us into believing it’s a lost cause. If so, we might as well continue, eh?

I’m so fucking tired of advertisements. I’m sick and tired of it.

I did this by hand

This is extremely impractical for daily password use. Not being able to ever change your master or the passwords to your sites is a deal-breaker for the security minded who wouldn’t even want the risk of an encrypted password wallet.

It’s an interesting idea, but in the end it’s flawed.