OpenStars

I want to have the ability to turn on my echo chamber, when I want it, and also to be able to turn it off, when I want to step outside of it for awhile. This doesn't have to be a toggle - it could be having an alt on a different instance.

I don't want this choice made for me by people who think they know better how to run my own life than me. They can write an appeal that I will consider, but ultimately I want to make my own choice.

Having votes be publicly viewable allows us all the freedom to do as we choose with that information - including to ignore them entirely. What I would probably do with it is make large block lists of people on lemmy.ml, since it turns out that user blocks of an instance don't block all that much. Fwiw, for everyone I've blocked in the past, I look through the post history to see if they merely are being disagreeable on a particular matter but overall are capable of contributing something substantive to a conversation, or are nothing more than a troll, setting out to vomit their emotions upon everyone worldwide across the Fediverse.

I've been a mod before, on Reddit, and am under no illusions anymore that everyone is worth listening to - a downvote from someone rational I will give serious thought about, but an idiot is an idiot, even if a community mod hasn't banned them (yet?).

It's like autocorrect: feel free to make suggestions, but it would be nice if I could have control when I want it, including/especially not wasting my time.

Similar, though halfway made the switch to Firefox sooner, at least on a mobile, and still nowadays have to use Chrome more on a desktop. For one thing, it supports multiple profiles better, which is mandatory for managing two work emails that both use Microdick's Outlook.

It is really annoying though, like how it always checks in with home base despite opting out, and how I have to force close it every time I'm done with it or else my phone gives me warning messages about it using up too much battery, even if I haven't used it at all that day (hence why I've taken to force closing it).

But... no ads, and that wins:-). Also open source, so it's got a strong base, just I wish it was implemented more than a little better, which is probably a harder ask than I give it credit for, so I am glad that it works as well as it does, with everything wanting to kill it off.

(Who the hell would downvote this comment - IE deserves to be made fun of at every opportunity!!?!!:-P - and within minutes too, you might have a stalker:-D)

Sigh, yes those were the days. The bad old days. ~~Chrome~~ Google was supposed to be our savior but...

Unlike commenting and posting, which offers the who, what, where, and when parts of the message passing process, voting on Lemmy (now, for non-admins) is inherently an unequal process. Imagine if someone could send you an email whenever they wanted, but you were prevented from knowing who or even from what instance it is from, or when it was sent, do you think that could open up a potential for some variety of abuse? Or texting, phone calls, showing up at your door, etc.

Knowing the identity of the voter is an important part of properly receiving the "message". It also increases freedom of choice, b/c otherwise the only way to prevent such messages (if, let's take it as a given that some people find them annoying) would be to turn off voting entirely, either by going to one of the instances that does that, or just ignoring all (down-)votes yourself.

If we want the Fediverse to grow, and in particular to include less emotionally stunted humans that actually care when someone says something about them, good or bad, this will be a necessity. (Also, I was speaking tongue-in-cheek there, but genuinely social standards do vary across this wide world, and it really would increase content if there were not only more but different types of people, especially those most likely to generate quality content.)

And as other non-Lemmy methods of access to the Fediverse provide that feature - k/mbin, piefed, sublinks - Lemmy will fall increasingly behind if it were to ignore this very basic feature.

Making the votes public also increases honesty, since they are already public now. And if you don't want to know who down-(up?-)votes you then... don't look? But for those who want to know, it will be a great feature to have.

Sometimes I go outside. Sometimes it rains. The two are somewhat correlated.:-)

4 also appears 3 times, but that number 3 isn't always a number 3 - especially the bottom right kinda looks like a negative 3, and the one left of it...

At best, mods seem overwhelmed, especially of meme communities, while at worst, they are okay with such rule violations so long as they agree with the particular brand of politics. I had to start blocking some when they advocate extremist views that I don't find fun to constantly read. This was long before the election ramp-up - like "wouldn't it be fun to skin a landlord alive?", "the only good landlord is a dead landlord", etc.

But it worms its way into many other communities too, so finally I blocked all of lemmy.ml. Blocking lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net makes the Fediverse fun to be in, rather than a hellscape of extremist propaganda that constantly makes fun of the USA sponsored genocide, while defending genocide committed by Russia or China. I am okay with content regarding genocide, but I prefer a more... "adult" take on the matter, rather than the juvenile crap I was constantly seeing before those blocks.

They are free to speak however they want - but I am also free to not listen.

Omg, just imagine for a second: all of that torture that he puts himself through, and like his entire relationship with Keiko, all of it... it's all... on purpose!? 🤯

Ooh, good thought.

Or don't, it's part of the torture he is putting himself through? :-P

It does things very differently, and many webpage designers hate it with a passion - I don't know of the details why - despite how it is a successor to Netscape Navigator, open source, and a competitor to the monopolistic Google's Chrome. Maybe there are reasons for why it does what it does even, but it alienates people who enjoy the simplicity of just making pages work on Chrome, and then anyone else be damned.