thoro

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if lay users can see how I vote, then I might start being harassed by people for daring to downvote them or daring to upvote someone. And may stay tracking my voting habits.

  In which case, I’d probably stop voting.

  Having a barrier to that info is better than no better even if it’s not impossible, imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I typically operate under the assumption that basically anything I decide to post on a public forum is not private.

  Call me crazy, but I care less about the instance admins being able to see me vote history than regular users. For me the latter will produce a chilling effect on how I operate with the site moreso than the former, even if admins have more power that can be abused. I was already aware of the votes not actually being public, but I still think there’s a difference between having a motivated malicious user go out of their way to look (making an instance, looking on a different platform, etc) vs making it simple for lay users to see that info.

  And honestly, if a solution could be determined to help make votes anonymous but still allow admins/mods to deal with bots/trolls, then I’d be all for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately the author has a few paragraphs that miss the mark and strike me as coming from more of a centrist or right-wing “kids these days are too soft” which feels very off-base and disconnected from the issue.

  Welcome to the Atlantic. It’s telling they think all these issues are because of phones and not other aspects of society or something like the looming, ever present threat of climate change.