FundMECFS

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[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Exactly this.

The news loves this kind of stuff.

[Thing Associated with not being poor or chronically ill is Linked to Thing associated with not being poor or chronically ill]

And then they love the narrative that [thing that’s hard to afford] is actually the reason not just a correlate.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 17 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Terrible person gets replaced by the devil incarnate. Love this timeline /s.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Especially if Cowbee’s in atrocity denial essay spam mode

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1166532/piefed-s-anonymous-voting-situation

Piefed currently has anonymous — or more accurately, pseudonymous, voting.

which in my opinion is a great thing. I really think this feature is important.

However, while it works great to hide votes from casual users, the current system is trivially easy to correlate accounts to their voting profiles. Unless they adopt specific behaviours with large friction (ie. not voting on any post or comment you reply to, not voting on any community you participate in). And even then, timestamps of activity and general activity level will probably still be enough.

My question basically is, is there a plan to mitigate this? Possibly through optional features like voting profiles being ephemeral (like you get reassigned a new one every X weeks or posts).

Btw really appreciate you, piefed devs.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Aren’t catfish venemous? I was told never to handle a live one. Especially it’s back.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Exactly.

There are plenty of retraction worthy papers still standing. I think most in academia have come to the realisation that as of the late 2010s and early 2020s the ratio of decent paper to slop has gotten so bad that most bad papers are just ignored, not retracted.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 13 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Is this real? Like do people do this?

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 10 points 5 days ago

This is not just because of public education gutting. It’s a worldwide phenomenon, even in places with the highest ranked public schools on earth.

the simple truth is bombarding someone with a certain way of seeing the world makes them more likely to see the world that way. It’s propaganda, plain and simple.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Sad thing is it works on a lot of naive young people.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Yes. That’s the easier solution.

The harder solution is maybe we shouldn’t have 9 people appointed by the most powerful person in the country for life have that much power. It’s not very democratic.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So what is it actually?

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