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  • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I was briefly able to get to https://archive.org/donate - I’m going to kick them a few bucks and recommend anyone else who can afford to also do so.

    There’s also this, copied verbatim from the site:

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    I say we go full Streisand effect on whatever dickhead is trying to censor them.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      What I like about Lemmy is, I can see not only score, but also up AND downvotes. On reddit, I can see the score. On Lemmy, If I see you have a score 7, I can also see you have 10 upvotes and 3 downvotes. 10-3=7, and I can get a better idea if a comment is controversial, or popular.

      Your post, that I’m replying to has 69 (nice) upvotes, and zero downvotes. THIS IS HOW IT MUST STAY!!!

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Reddit used to show downvotes, sort by controversial, and hide by variable net downvote totals.

        Then someone in admin decided it wasn’t good for business, so all the features got phased out.

  • OpenStars@discuss.online
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    7 months ago

    Who would downvote something like this, without leaving a comment to explain why!?

    Sometimes I wish I could see that info, in rare circumstances like this.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      7 months ago

      Due to how federation works, downvotes are actually somewhat public because instance owners can query them in lemmy database, though instance owners probably won’t tell you if you ask due to privacy reason. If you’re interested in something like this, you can run your own instance.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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        7 months ago

        Yeah, it’s actually … a bit creepy.

        Federated voting in general seems like it could use some rethinking to enable private voting but also to protect against vote manipulation. Right now the fediverse is arguably incredibly vulnerable to vote manipulation campaigns.

        • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ru
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          7 months ago

          I was wondering about this. If they didn’t keep track of who is voting, manipulation would be easier then it already is. The problem is that rogue instance admins could make votes public.

          • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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            7 months ago

            One possible answer is to allow anyone to see votes categorized by instance, so you know where they’re originating from.

            Small/single user instances could be aggregated together/anonymized or maybe that’s just the price you pay for having a single user instance.