Even Hitler had admirable qualities
But certainly the most relevant quality he had was his rabid, genocidal antisemitism, right?
You wouldn't complain about him being labeled as a eugenicist just because he painted a little when he wasn't slaughtering millions.
You can disagree without a downvote option.
It's more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway.
Blaming it on an LLM is such a brilliant 2 birds with one stone idea, I will definitely be doing that
The study he's pointing to is looking at why Harris/Biden's coalition collapsed from 2020. It's not exclusively looking at abstentions, but people who supported Biden in 2020 but didnt in 2024.
"Biden 2020 voters who cast a ballot for someone other than Harris in 2024"
I legitimately don't even know why someone might think this.
Why? I don't see a benefit to the button at all. Even being able to register disapproval is better done via comment, anyway, and having to articulate it makes you far more likely to self-reflect and temper yourself than if you can just downvote every comment in a thread
This is just further evidence that we just shouldn't have a downvote option at all.
That's just how a federated exchange needs to work, though. Without sharing which user is creating activity, there would be no way of verifying the legitimacy of activity without some convoluted blockchain process. On the other hand, sharing IP addresses isn't just unnecessary but more involved.
There's frankly no point in making votes private, anyway. Why should it matter who knows how you vote?
Important to note here, too, is that ip addresses of users arent synced across instances.
This is only a problem for people who care about the reputation of their user account - which is something people should be rotating out anyway if they care about their privacy.
IP addresses are not something that can be pulled from just any instance. You would need to be the administrator, and even then you'd only get access to the ip address of just your own instance users. AFAIK, at least - maybe they've made efforts to mask ips, too, but im not even sure how that'd work.
Federated posts and comments are copied from server to server. When someone from .world is looking at a comment from .dbzer0, what they are seeing is information that was synced from the dbzer0 server address, not the user's.
There was a brief moment when there was a vulnerability with linked images sent via DM that could route you to an external server and log your IP address, but that has been patched now by most instances.
As with anything on the internet: assume your activity is not private at all times, or take active precautions to mask your identity, or both. No opsec is perfect and often the only thing standing in the way of a hack or dox is the endurance and motivation of the bad actor.
Unpopular opinion but social media has always been fundamentally public.
Unless they're scraping private dm's on encrypted devices, this should come as no surprise to anyone.
The good news is that nobody has exclusive right to data on federated platforms, unlike other sites that will ransom their user's data for private use. Let's not forget that many of us migrated here because the other site wanted to lock down their api and user data so that they could auction it to google for profit.
"What he did with concentration camps"
vs
"Vegan"
You're not beating the allegations here.