Is it the same for downvotes?

Yes

It’s honestly a big downside. I can see it being useful for admins on their own instances to detect brigades or vote manipulation coming from different servers, but I don’t like that they are public, because it could discourage people from voting honestly on topics where they could potentially be harassed for engaging

And anyone can be an admin. You can just make an instance and appoint yourself an admin. So in practice it’s not limited to anybody.

It’s just an option on every post

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No, it’s on Lemmy too

The accuracy of the votes (lack or vote fuzzing) and the ability to view the split of upvotes and downvotes individually, as well as who voted for what

The latter point can be seen as a kind of disadvantage though. I don’t like the fact that anyone who is an admin on any instance can go to another instance and see the identity of every voter on any post.

I’m new to lemmy, so I could be missing some context, but you arent making a very good pitch with this post. Java is a downgrade from rust, and unless I’m reading wrong you seem to suggest they are planning to deliberately introduce new features into this java implementation as a way to break up the network on purpose, which would make lemmy instances obsolete, and you sort of present it as a good thing and suggest its a deliberate political move on behalf of sublinks. But you didn’t even explain in your post why lemmy exactly needs to be replaced. So you are calling lemmy toxic, but already this new project is just seeming very underhanded and manipulative by its very existence. As a user who just wants a better reddit alternative, reading this post makes me feel like I stumbled upon a project motivated by a grudge (just based on the way it’s phrased) and you leave me more inclined to speak out against it than endorse it, since it seems like an attempt to divide the network, and I’ve seen what happens to divided networks where instances have different features and refuse to work together (just look at XMPP). So unless you can explain what is wrong with lemmy’s development or roadmap I think everybody reading this should be very skeptical of sublinks and cautious of the threat posed by projects like this in general.

It’s the level that behavior has been amplified that’s scary and unusual, before the internet it was only the most extreme fringe groups. It isn’t normal to go online and feel like a 50/50 chance everybody you meet is an extremist. That’s a recent thing just sometime within the last 10 years and it’s never been like that before ever

I don’t believe in conspiratorial thinking though. I don’t think this happened on purpose. Social media algorithms were built to maximize engagement by collecting user data, the algorithms learned that people engage more if posts amplifying negative emotions are amplified, and that explains how stuff like this happened. It’s actually scarier to realize the state of society is because of an accident caused by negligent capitalism rather than tyranny.

I feel like this kind of behavior can be attributed to the unintended consequences of social media engagement algorithms, black boxes taking over peoples minds and turning them into angry thralls, it’s like a natural disaster. Trump was basically an internet meme and he evolved into this

is plasma any good yet? I last used it in like 2019 and it was too buggy. I’ve heard it’s gotten better, but I haven’t had the chance to test it

1 step forward, 4 steps back!

I don’t know, but I wouldn’t recommend OpenShot because it just gets really laggy when adjusting the timeline, and it lacks certain workflow features that you’d just expect mature video editing software to have (like the ability to move or delete keyframes)

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Find a multiplayer online videogame that is popular, has social or elements, and is noncompetitive enough that it doesn’t already have a market for cheats. Then develop and sell cheats for it. Not illegal, just against ToS (you have a right to reverse engineer depending on where you live) And you’ll get heaps of money.

My problem is I can’t not see transgender expression as mostly being a choice. What they do to deal with their dysphoria (which amounts to body image issues, I know how serious that can be) is a decision. The decision to just go for it and start presenting as the opposite gender is the most challenging one, by nature it’s destined to be radical and have the most pushback. It’s not their body image issues that tgey are derided for, it’s their action, not their existence

Do I think that is bad? No. It is a classic underdog story, there is everything to root for

Yet I cannot view it as being even close to the civil rights movement, where people just have the wrong skin color. It just isn’t the same.

If someone is born as a boy and later in life they just decide to go “fuck you, I’m a woman” that’s punk, you cannot expect everyone from all backgrounds to understand, it is a really confronting thing. It’s actually very metal. I don’t see how anyone can think it’s just everyday existence. It’s totally a cultural choice and not just them ‘existing’ like a black person during the civil rights movement.

Trans people exist who who aren’t activists, but they are still part of a counterculture. It is very punk-coded. At some point in the past, punk people liked being seen as radicals.

Yeah, I understand not wanting it in one’s own relationship, but other people should be allowed to do whatever they want. I don’t understand getting upset at a polyamorous couple. If you don’t like it then just don’t do it yourself

It is a bit disingenuous to say they are just trying to live their lives in peace, they have chosen an antagonistic path by pushing to normalize the way gender is viewed in culture, which is an upset of the status quo, and that is radical by definition. it doesn’t matter what their motivations are for that to be true.

It’s a cultural shift. everyone in the world now uses technology at all times (even adults, in the past it was only the kids glued to phones). So the problem isn’t actually schools, but the world.

that’s why the fediverse exists