There’s a reason humans are an important part of the federation, and it’s not because they are the smartest. They are the crazy fuckers who do whatever insane thing comes to mind just to see what will happen.
For those that haven’t seen it: The United Federation of Hold My Beer
Yes, if that were to happen it would be a big blow. It hasn’t happened despite all the things, so I’m not holding my breath.
I’m still seeing Twitter posts on Lemmy frequently. It doesn’t matter if they’re bots or paid, the site is still being used and posts are still being passed around.
https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-statistics/
Rebranded as “X” in July 2023 under Elon Musk’s leadership, the platform saw a 15% drop in monthly active users soon after. Despite this, with 611 million monthly active users…
“X” is doing just fine.
If Twitter hasn’t had a mass exodus I’m not holding it hope for any other social media. The fact of the matter is the majority of the public just don’t care.
Incorporating that in a way that doesn’t allow for vote manipulation by just lying to a server that different “anonymous” users have up or down voted a post sounds incredibly difficult, and not worth it for the narrow use case of “prevent my votes from being data mined even though all my comments can.”
datamining my voting patterns for building a deeper interest profile.
They can already datamine your posts.
I still don’t support anything which lowers the friction of vote stalking
I don’t follow, what are people going to do from being able to see votes that they can’t do by seeing your posts?
It was a difficult situation but I don’t think Janeway made the wrong decision.