fwiw i think that karma could be useful in the future; but lemmy lacks the resources to implement it w/o it getting abused.
so i think it makes sense to wait for the those with the finances to pay for the development teams to figure it out and, once they do, we can copy/paste their idea(s) into implementing something like this that is viable and maintainable for lemmy.
that's how karma ends up getting used no matter what you do; as exemplified by reddit and despite all efforts taken to prevent it by its professional staff of developers.
lemmy is run by volunteers who mostly have day jobs & other life hurdles and if people who are paid to dedicate their entire time were & are not able to mitigate karma abuse like it is on reddit; what hope is there for lemmy to succeed where they failed?
why do we need the karma?
Would be nice to have a truly free internet
i was lucky enough to experience this back in the 1990's and it was FANTASTIC!
And this is how it’ll keep going for the foreseeable future, unfortunately… They all live to become shitty.
unfortunately true whenever money or leverage gets involved.
Self-hosted seems like the best way to go if one is looking for privacy, although soon enough the only truly effective option will be to stay offline…
i learned the hard way that it was risky back then and i'm 100% sure it's worse now and will require a lot more effort.
also: you must have REALLY pissed someone off; they down vote you within seconds of posting. i run a script to tell me when i get a response that runs every 10 seconds and they down vote you before my script has a chance to run.
From the outside looking it it does appear that way but it seems so…un-American.
it's at our core and since our founding; things like the electoral college (the same one that's helping trump win) were implemented to give the few wealthy people a way of preventing the masses of poor people from obtaining meaningful political representation. at the time of its inception, the few wealthy were slave owners and the masses of the poor were mostly immigrants with relatively strong abolitionist & populist views for the time.
I’ve spent a decent bit of time over there over the course of my life (north of 6 months total, mostly up and down both coasts) and I’m genuinely very fond of the US and its people and that has given me this internal sense of what “un-American” is if that isn’t a ludicrous statement.
i think it's common if you don't study the origin of this country deeply enough and i also think we all can be forgiven for not doing so since taking that action requires overcoming many obstacles designed to prevent you from doing so; also it's depressing af and on too many levels.
Unfortunately it seems to be a systemic issue with certain states. At one point several had federally monitored elections to prevent shenanigans but I don’t know if that’s true anymore
i think that you're referring to the voting rights act of 1965 and it was rendered toothless by the supreme court in 2013 and it was created because of those systematic issues.
i've did the same thing a while ago; but now proton has begun enshitifying too and i've been weighing whether or not i want to go through the hassle of creating my own mail server like i did back in the early 2000's.
very true and if it weren't for the tireless efforts of their journalists i would have classified it as the same category as the others.
i think that the best you can do under the overwhelming circumstances in my country is to try and i think that they are trying despite their own biases manifesting themselves from time to time and their perpetual funding dance with partners like the imperial gov't and the american oligarchs.
I’m the type of person who’d willingly give my data to train LLMs or what-have-yous if their owners weren’t a bunch of pricks and just asked me nicely instead of that “Legitimate Interest” cloak and dagger bullshit. Also if they weren’t money grubbing bastards.
if you're using a public email service like gmail; you've already done this and they've made billions because of off your information.
The platform is mostly on autopilot; it can limp along for a long time