It's about fashion designs. Your buzzwords have about as much relevance here as they usually do in any startup pitch - which is to say, absolutely none.
awesome_lowlander
There's like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them...
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a good place to start. Check the megathread / FAQ
rather than the far more likely situation of rewrites and editing.
At this point that feels like the bigger assumption
If votes became truly public
There's no 'if', they already are.
what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?
The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.
Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.
No, anybody can currently do this.
That's the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It's that or trust a megacorp with it.
ITT: Lots of people who have no idea how the tech works and couldn't be bothered reading the comments before posting
Welcome to English Idioms 101
Well this is talking about Diablo ONE, so...
Not the whole comment, but the word would get removed. It also applies to any comments posted to communities hosted on the server.
So much for free speech, eh.
Jihad, civilised disagreement. Potayto, potahto
Many people disagree with the bot existing. Blocking it is just a surrender, downvotes show that the disagreement continues and lets others know it exists.
You'd probably be tossed out a window before the day was over, TBH.