This is such an interesting development. I bet a lot of dirty laundry is about to be aired.
troyunrau
joined 1 year ago
Sure, it's just another tarball to compile and install, right? What do you mean lots of dependencies? Oh, well, I guess there is Krita :)
That article is light on implemention details. It talks a lot about the legislation itself, and ways in which it might be implemented.
Pot -- kettle
If we're in string freeze, it's probably within a few weeks. They're in bug squashing and translations mode now. I'd take that bet.
Keeper of the tools of gardening.
Yes, but how. The details matter
I’m saying you should do your own research
This is the calling card slogan of someone who's bought into reality rejection...
The educated world is built on a web of trust whereupon subject matter experts must necessarily yield to others when something is outside of their realm of expertise. I am a planetary scientist and geophysicist and spent nearly a decade studying. I am constantly learning things in my own field, and by no means do I have a full grasp on every detail. But I can call out BS when someone talks about orbital mechanics or earthquakes or whatever. I do not, however, know anything about the digestive tract of my cat and yield to the veterinarian who has spent their whole life becoming an expert on these sorts of things. I don't argue with the vet that I've done my own research (watched a few youtube videos) and thus am qualified to disagree with them. Because objectively I know less than them on that subject and no cursory review will solve my ignorance.
When rating the bias of news organizations, what qualifications do you have so that you can do your own research? Do you have fundamental knowledge of the journalistic process? Is the media source covering a topic you are a subject matter expert in? Or are you just lashing out because it doesn't vibe with your worldview?
The thing about the fediverse is: it doesn't have to be uniform in how the admins and moderators behave, because federation is an elective process. Don't like an admin or mod, go somewhere else. Just don't be surprised when that somewhere else gets defederated.
So, federated network advantages here: you can always modify your instance's hosting code to patch this out, at least for the users on your instance.
What you cannot do is prevent other federated instances from publishing the votes submitted to content on their instance. But if you're accessing that content through your local instance, they can modify the upvote button to pop up a dialog saying something like: "The instance that hosts this content has elected to make usernames visible for upvote/downvote. Would you still like to vote?"
Personally: In many ways I don't mind. I'm on the internet with my real name. I don't mind being accountable for my behaviour online. I might be a little more cautious about upvoting something controversial or NSFW, but largely it wouldn't change my behaviour.
At least you can force desktop mode on most sites. No mobiles apps, desktop mode on phone. Usually.
James Bond death ray time :)