krayj

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[–] krayj 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

First, votes aren't exactly transparent, but they also aren't completely private either. User voting records are stored in databases that instance owners have access to, so it's possible for them to see (and/or even publish) up/down voting history. KBin already does this publicly. So I can see an argument being made that if the info is available to some people, it should be available to all people.

Personally, I wouldn't care if my upvotes and downvotes are exposed to the commenters/posters that I voted on, but I'm concerned about the possibility of it being used for discrimination. Imagine me following/participating in a community and then being immediately banned from that community solely because a community moderator didn't like how I upvoted/downvoted on things. For example, say I want to participate in a philosophy or politic themed community and one of the mods there just happens to be very conservative and decides to exclude me just because I upvoted something that was NSFW once upon a time and they disapproved of that behavior? This will absolutely happen if all voting is public. On reddit, a similar form of discrimination happened by analyzing where people posted and they would be banned from certain subreddits just based on the other subreddits they have been active on- and even worse was that this was often done by a bot without regard for the actual comments made. I recall a very specific example of someone who used to hop into r/conservative to challenge or antagonize certain lines of thinking and they were banned from liberal/progressive subreddits because of their activity on r/conservative despite the fact that they were not sympathetic to anything on r/conservative. That same discrimination can (and probably does) happen on Lemmy already, but making voting history public will take it to the next level.

If voting ever did become public on lemmy, then at a minimum users should be able to see/review/audit their voting history and be given the ability to retroactively delete some/all of it.

You're also ignoring the fact that it's trivial to create/use alternate lemmy accounts. If voting records were public, it would just drive people to create multiple accounts from which to vote on things - to compartmentalize their interactions with different communities or users. Since this fact means that users would STILL be able to hide/mask their voting history, I think this is a good argument that it makes no logical sense to make voting records public.

I think an ideal solution would be for users to just have a choice to make their voting public or to keep it private, or to selectively publicize or keep secret on a vote-by-vote bases.

[–] krayj 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am so glad I live in a state where mail-in balloting is the default for everyone. I have only sympathy for citizens in states that still require in-person voting. Good luck with your attempt today.

[–] krayj 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

She wouldn’t have been any better than drumpf

Hard disagree.

Most likely, Hillary just wouldn't have accomplished much of anything (and not so much for lack of agenda or effort but because of the unprecedented amount of rightwing/conservative resistance put up for everything she would have attempted. But at worst, it would just have been business as usual for another 4 years. Trump has actually turned the country, the executive branch, the judicial branch, national safety, the economy, and the environment into a continent-sized dumpster fire that will burn for decades. Hillary wouldn't have done that.

Hillary's greatest sin was coming into the 2016 election as if she'd already won...as if she -deserved- to win....as if it was pre-ordained...and that really rubbed people the wrong way. Being a woman didn't help - half this country are a few IQ points away from neanderthals who don't believe women are capable of leading a nation, so that didn't help either.

The democratic party also deserves much of the blame- they were going to shit on Bernie and promote Hillary regardless of what the common voters wanted...because they had the power to do that and they were willing to exercise that power. So fuck them too.

(if it's not obvious, I thought Bernie was the clear superior choice also)

[–] krayj 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I need this also, but not for the same reason. I've created user accounts on several large/medium/small instances to serve as redundancy in case one or more of my favorite instances is having technical difficulties or just gets decommissioned. I'd like to synchronize my community subscriptions across multiple accounts so that I can easily switch between user-accounts/instances without missing anything I'm already subscribed to.

I previously found and bookmarked this "Lemmy Migrate" script, but I've not yet had an opportunity to dive in and try it. Take a look, maybe it'll work for you.

Announcement: https://lemmy.world/post/226441

GitHub project: https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

[–] krayj 3 points 2 years ago

It comes across as if it was a business decision without regard for their customers....without the basic understanding that their customers ARE their business.

[–] krayj 2 points 2 years ago

Some were produced that were claimed to be dimmable - and I wasted my money on a few and was still unhappy with them. The other problem I forgot to mention earlier was the startup time: the earlier bulbs (and the cheaper ones) wouldn't just 'turn on' when the power was turned on...they took some time to start making light, and the colder it was the longer it took - this is an aspect where LEDs are amazing - maximum brightness within milliseconds of getting energized.

[–] krayj 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One problem is that CFL bulbs is that they contain small amounts of mercury (about 4mg per bulb). Because of that, disposing of them responsibly requires going through big hassles rather than just throwing them in the trash. Also, because of that mercury, accidentally breaking one means contamination of the environment around the break.

Flickering - always was a big problem for these things.

Longevity: They were very sensitive to heat, which meant that they loved to burn themselves up in a lot of applications.

Dimming: CFLs were NEVER good at being dimmable.

CFL was just a very poor technology detour on the way to the vastly superior LED lights.

[–] krayj 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The attack happened in October 2018. The trial didn't even begin until April 2023.

Why was there a 4+ year delay starting such a high profile trial? I can't find the answer to that anywhere.

[–] krayj 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Do you sanction all theft, or just theft of things you personally disapprove of?

[–] krayj 2 points 2 years ago

"Florida Man" strikes again! LOL.

[–] krayj 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't seen this issue reported here yet, but it is a reported and tracked issue against lemmy-ui on github. It was introduced in version 0.18.3, which a lot of instances are just upgrading to (or have just upgraded to).

Here's a link to the tracked issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1999

[–] krayj 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which do you think is the cause, and which do you think is the effect? Is it being religious that has a tendency to cause that in people, or is it that flaw in people which causes them to be attracted to religion?

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