Kraiden

The thing is, I really don't want them to cancel it. I've been signing up for it and then cancelling my subscription when it's finished, and then pirating it anyway. I just want them to see it as valuable, so they don't try to squeeze 14 books worth of content into one shitty finale because it's not making them money.

Lol, this is the first one that I'm mildly inconvenienced by participating in. Wheel of Time S3 comes out somewhere in there doesn't it?

I can wait.

It's been revised to 0.001%

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Asteroid_2024_YR4_no_longer_poses_significant_impact_risk

Even the Asteroid took one look and said "fuck that"

I say we launch the earth defence rockets anyway an coax it back on course

Huh, that's an interesting approach. It's still not truly private though

The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account by anyone other than your PieFed instance admin(s).

So it the same situation as Reddit where the record still exists, and you've just got to trust your admins not to sell you out.

If you're truly worried about it to the level the other comments are suggesting, you're still better off treating them as public anyway.

Really my issue is I just cannot wrap my head around why people are treating votes as more sensitive than comments. That's really backwards imho. I think the only people protected by having votes be so private are the people abusing them

Yes. I do not see how it's any different to the existing extremely granular, public, and permanent record of how they comment, nor why they should be treated differently.

Also, the way the ActivityPub works, that record exists whether or not the general public can see it. Reddit or Fediverse, the creeping global authoritarians can access to that record. At least if the public can see it, and is aware that it's not private, they might think twice about what they vote on, if they're that concerned about it.

I would argue that if you think you're a target to the creepy global authoritarians, what you upvote or downvote on the fediverse should be the least of your concerns. Your comments are far more likely to compromise you than your votes. Yes, as @smeg@feddit.uk points out, if you're upvoting/downvoting things in location specific communities, it might narrow the search field, but that's all the more reason to make people aware that this record isn't private on any platform (right now).

Making it truly private, from what I understand, would require a monumental change to how the fediverse works, and I just don't think it would add enough value to be worth it. We're not talking about elections here. 99% of the time we're talking about wether or not I agree that RA3 was redeemed purely on the fact that it gave us some amazing Tim Curry gifs

Essentially, I just think that making it easily accessible to the general public will do more good than harm, and making it truly private is more effort than it's worth.

I don't buy that it's easier to dox someone on the fediverse than it is on reddit JUST because you can see what they've upvoted, and If you want to be engaging with dangerous political content, you should be protecting your account as a whole and treating everything you do or say as being accessible to bad actors. It's the age old adage: If you want it to stay private, don't put it online

Ok, making people aware that they're not private, fine. That should be done, but only really because people are coming from Reddit and expecting them to be private.

if people then know if was you who downvoted can still pick the fight

I think if anyone tried to pick a fight with me over downvoting them, I'd just feel sorry for them for a second before blocking them. Not saying there aren't people like that, but they have to be very far and few between.

Maybe a disgruntled person uses that to dox you, , or maybe a corpo feeds all that information into their fancy computer system to work out who you might be

This seems extremely far fetched to me. If someone is going to dox you, it's going to be from your comments, not because you upvoted something. I just don't buy that. I can't even think of a hypothetical scenario where an up/downvote in isolation could be used to dox someone - feel free to propose one if you can

Serious question: Why should they be private?

I know they're private on Reddit, but so what? It's not exactly sensitive information, and I can see many benefits to having them be publicly viewable. Namely preventing bot farms or people creating hundreds of alts to upvote their own fresh takes, or downvoting stuff they disagree with into oblivion.

I've always seen it as a shorthand for dropping a comment saying "I agree with this" or "I don't agree with this" which would have your username against it

I dunno. Whoever is in charge of Westwood IP these days isn't completely fucking it up. The remaster team was in contact with the community through development and by and large listened to the feedback. The remaster was good as a result. Releasing the source means the possibility of a modern enhancements ala OpenRA.

Of course none of this redeems them for RA3 or C&C 4

Huh. My device seems to have been skipped? I don't do anything special, I'm using Play Store and Play Services, and I'm up to date, but it's not showing up in my settings app list

It was playing on all the screens in a govt. building for 5 minutes. The staff didn't know how to stop it so someone was running around manually unplugging screens. I'd say that's pretty newsworthy