Apologies to the elderly for posting it here.

It can’t be stopped this way but this is just some friction or increasing barrier to entry to discourage it. Most people are lazy and will just drop it as not worth the effort, and the most persistent will be annoying no matter what you do.

Ah, there’s even an option to turn off vote types selectively at the federation level, that’s pretty cool! This is kind of like my other pipe dream of vote weight being different based on whether it’s local or federated.

I was thinking of this too but then you need to keep track of who’s allowed to vote and that’s weird thing to federate even conceptually.

Something along similar lines is how they do it on Slashdot where users are randomly assigned limited number of points to be used for voting which makes them more precious in general. Tildes is also interesting in that regard because while there are no downvotes there, trusted users can apply labels that serve as something between a reason for downvote and a report. For example comment can be tagged as „noise” for not bringing anything to discussion which automatically ranks it below other comments but not removes it entirely. This prevents jokes being the top reply which is nice. Nothing against jokes but it depends on what kind of content you want others too see on your platform.

What’s important is that it’s possible if you don’t like any other instance. Maybe once Lemmy gets popular we’ll get commercial hosts offering to spin up a Lemmy instance the same way they offer WordPress.

To me the idea is more important than implementation details because those can be worked out in many different ways as you’ve noticed. If you know what is the goal then you can adjust if you see things not working out as intended.

The most basic approach would be to get positive/negative ratio and decide how much in the middle is still 0.

Does electoral college allow you to create a state and vote as an equal to any other state whenever you feel like?

Being aware of abuse means monitoring and maintenance - more work for admins. I prefer hands off / systemic way of fixing things and this is more like anarcho-syndicalism than an electoral college. Probably similar ideas at the root of things but very different execution.

We’re voting on posts and not heads of state here anyway. In this analogy USA would have to allow you to carve out a bit of land and present yourself as an equal to Florida. This is an intentional backdoor for people who hate this idea enough.

Correct :)

It’s unrelated. Poland has a long history of keeping taxes so low that we can’t afford to keep running a proper country and then we get invaded and give up after couple of days of fighting.

I sometimes hypothesise that the kind of Poles that is able to run Poland see that it’s a futile effort and then approximately once per century that kind of Poles goes to Western Europe or America to help with their wars so at least their lives don’t suck as much. Depressing thought but about as depressing as living in Poland.

You joke about it like your nation is never threatened to be nuked by Elon Musk. Somehow that would create atmosphere. There are better ways, like just light up some candles, man.

European lives don’t revolve around US politics.

There are now, this one was the first.

It did not impact this thread at all before this comment which was my point exactly.

I think part of pleasantness is not bringing politics into things that weren’t intended to be about politics.

Apps make or break those platforms. Lemmy apps are way better than what Mastodon has for example (but I have to tip my hat to Phanpy). We got really lucky that Lemmy exploded in popularity due to Reddit API changes which meant many app developers gave Lemmy a shot. I probably wouldn’t use Lemmy so much if Voyager didn’t fill the hole Apollo left in my heart.

al Quaedeon!

This is my understanding as well.

When all of the elites come from wealthy families then are the institutions they staff really independent? There are judges and prosecutors who have been very partisan here. We know that wealth affects your chances at getting highier education, connections etc. We also know wealth inequality is rising. Maybe the system is rigged subtly enough so that we don’t revolt? Just consider the possibility and basic flaws in human nature.

[edit] Every downvote is a lib saying „nu-uh, propaganda!”, proving my point that they actively reject reality. This is why everyone is surprised when post truth politicians win. Reality was staring them in the face this whole time. How long can they keep this up? Is fascism the end goal? Wouldn’t surprise me. MLK remains timelessly right.

Why the heck would I lie to you. The case Im referring to is commonly seen as an insult to intelligence and it went to the Supreme Court.

https://brd24.pl/spoleczenstwo/najsztub-prawomocnie-uniewinniony-w-sprawie-potracenia-kobiety-na-pasach/

As established by the portal brd24.pl, Piaseczno district office officials marked in the CEPiK system that Najsztub did not have a license. This is how it turned out that the stop was interrupted because their system listed him as a person remaining while driving (in this case, we stored answers to questions about how many times he had been stopped since his license was taken away).

Guy had no drivers license even!