Incidentally the same labels make Gmail fundamentally incompatible with the way IMAP works causing lots of weirdness whenever you use any standard email client not specifically designed for Gmail.

Isn’t it illegal under GDPR? It seems to be the exact same thing Facebook tried to do.

At first I really wanted to say “good, now they are treated the same as the Lebanese people living alongside them” but no, that definitely isn’t “good” by any real measure of this word. I hope this whole tragedy will stop soon.

I’d even argue public votes can deescalate some situations, for example where both sides of a relatively heated discussion can see they vote each other up. They don’t necessarily agree but they appreciate the other side’s points.

As for the transparency, it’s not possible to list all the votes of a user, one rather needs to list votes on a given post. To profile a given user the attacker would need to cross-reference the data from all posts and comments which is computationally infeasible, both client-side and server-side.

On Kbin the votes are 100% public for anyone. I’ve migrated to Lemmy after the frequent server issues with Kbin and I miss that part dearly. It was very easy to gauge whether someone was engaging in a good or bad faith discussion by checking the votes within a discussion. That being said, personally I’m very light on my downvotes, and I can see how someone more trigger-happy would see it as worrying. Personally I see the vote transparency as healthy though.

So they would have it just like everybody else? What’s wrong with that?

And what do the companies take away from this? “Cool, we just won’t leave you any other options.”

Did the Epstein island rebrand?

Oh hell no, we don’t need THREE major active conflicts!

So do I, and yet I keep renting a tiny apartment for ridiculous money. Maybe I should have committed genocide instead.

Sometimes the “necessary life changes” turn out to be a revolution to overthrow the current system.

Ah, so this was about melting the bottle down and making a new bottle 7 times? As opposed to washing the bottle and reusing it as it was. Makes much more sense now. :)

Why 7 specifically?

A non-American here. Can you explain why it is considered a political suicide? Do the votes like Israel so much or what?