One of the advantages of votes being public is that it keeps instance owners honest and, perhaps more importantly, means they know other instance owners are honest.
If they weren't public it would be easy to modify your lemmy instance to send 10 votes with fake hashes for every real vote. There would be constant accusations of brigading and faking votes.
I still think instances that are the least censorious are the best to recommend. At the end of the day you have no idea what communities someone will want to follow, so having access to everything is a plus.
Someone finding out a community they want to follow is blocked by their local BOFH because of some squabble is just going to make people go back to reddit, since it makes lemmy look no better.
It's unfortunate that awesome lemmy instances broke, since it was good for comparing how much of the lemmyverse an instance had access to.
Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps.
The secret is they made it easy to bypass, the API still works if you moderate any subreddit, even if it's one you just made. They made it just difficult enough to move the 99% of normie users to their own app.
The bill also allows for the flying of a “historic version of a flag ... that is temporarily displayed for educational purposes,”
“There are instances where in classrooms, you have curriculum that is needed to use flags such as World War II, Civil War,” he said. “You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a Confederate flag, and so you are allowed to display those flags… as part of the curriculum, and that is okay.”
The law is still dumb for wanting to ban the pride flag.
Is this just for the EU or Europe in general?