If votes became truly public

There’s no ‘if’, they already are.

what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?

The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.

Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

No, anybody can currently do this.

That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.

ITT: Lots of people who have no idea how the tech works and couldn’t be bothered reading the comments before posting

This was one of the less interesting what if articles, considering how the pricing of printer ink is a scam. Would be more interesting if he touched on Brother or commercial printer pricing.

I think you messed up the link formatting :)

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Of the numerous articles I’ve posted thus far, exactly ONE series (about the Supreme Court scandal) could reasonably be said to directly concern US politics.

Are you tired of clickbait and the current state of journalism? This community is meant to remind you that excellent journalism still happens. While not sticking to a specific topic, the focus will be on high-quality articles and discussion around their topics.

!longreads@sh.itjust.works

I meant their app store, as per this article

Ooh, ooh, do the nintendo switch next!

There’s a lot of irony here considering how so many Japanese companies have a track record of pulling this kind of shit themselves.

Yeah, 3rd party links are a tougher nut to crack. You’d think they could at least fix the local links, though.

I can think of a few potential solutions, but they’d all require a lot of user opt in and centralisation, which makes it unlikely to ever happen.

You’re missing the point. You should never leave your home instance. Lemmy could automatically remap links to whatever your home instance is before you ever click on them.

You’ve never seen superfans print out and bind a webnovel, huh 😛

I’ll go out on a limb and guess China was mentioned somewhere

Not really any different on lemmy, sadly

Why are you attacking somebody who’s backing you up? Sheesh

Kind of sad how many communities are on .ml. Would like to block the entire server but lose too much content.

If they’re posting on a .ml community, it’ll get censored

Don’t think LW has the language filter active. .ml is the one that has it active that I’m aware of

Not only. I live in Norway, where pedestrians have right of way and drivers are extremely careful. Discounting the risk from cars, there’s still more personal danger to users of scooters as opposed to cars. If you have an accident on a scooter, you’ll get scrapes, bruises, broken bones. As compared to a car, where unless you’ve really screwed up, you’re unlikely to take any injuries at all.

Source: scooter user who HAS broken bones

Less dangerous to others, but more dangerous to the users themselves, I suppose.

I disagree.