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  • Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome!

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  • well it's not only for US particularly. I just created it because there actually doesn't exist a single community (at least on LW, I haven't searched the entire fediverse) to discuss politics, US or global. /c/politics doesn't currently allow top level posts for discussion or self posts because it is difficult to keep civility.

  • Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

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  • What happens when foreign actors intent on influencing public policy decide to harass everyone critical of their issue? People will just stop being critical of the foreign narrative to stop the harassment, and you'll wind up with posts that are completely against the public interest and for the foreign narrative.

    You can already see this effect to some degree in comments, it'll only get worse if everything is made public in the UI.

    As counterintuitive as it is, regulated secrecy is necessary in all democratic processes, and I would argue that includes online forum debates.

    It would actually be nice if community mods had the capability to turn the community to anonymous for comments and posts as well. Is knowing who posts the information more important than the information itself? If it's worthwhile to share from one person, it's worthwhile to share from everyone else so identity isn't all that important.

  • Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

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  • The source code for Lemmy is free for all to view and modify, there will be no authoritarianism... And if it were to happen all of Lemmy administrators would either refuse the upgrade and stay retrograde, or quickly fork. The devs don't really have total control of thousands of servers to have free reign to do stuff like reddit corp does.

    I'm all for vote privacy in the UI. There are just too many downsides to public votes, and not as much weight to the positives in my opinion. People should not be afraid of backlash from down voting if a post does not contribute, it'll only create echo chambers/ unchallenged groupthink.

  • Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?

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  • Nothing4You commented Aug 14, 2024 •

    mods can already see votes in communities they moderate since 0.19.4, so this would be reducing what is visible today:

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    Dessalines commented 5 days ago

    I'd like to clarify that mods should only be able to see votes for the communities they mod only.

    Admins can see all votes.

    I dunno, we're on 0.19.3 so I don't see it but I guess it's there.

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967#issuecomment-2289596923

  • Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?

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  • yep, tyranny of the majority is still tyranny. It's worth defending the 3% who disagree with the majority opinion cause, more often than not, sometimes the majority is wrong...

    Defending the secret vote is the key to a functioning democracy, without it you just get cliques and in-groups who bully the outsiders. No one wins in that scenario, as critical thinking and critique are actively discouraged.

  • Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?

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  • someone commented on github (I think it was Desallines) that the vote viewing feature has been available since 0.19.4 . Lemmy world is still on 0.19.3 .

  • Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?

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  • Yes they should, unfortunately I don't think that's technically possible with the fediverse model as the servers have to communicate that info over Activity pub, at least that's my understanding of it.

  • Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

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  • Yeah there is already too much of a hivemind already, we don't need to make votes public, it would only enshrine a permanent 100% groupthink. It is a very bad idea.

  • Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

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  • That must have been an admin, mods can't see votes as far as I'm aware. Only domain administrators can see votes

  • ‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating

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  • Aluminum oxidizes and no longer reflects after long term exposure to moisture. It would have to be painted white, which is really no different than current metal roofing.

    Which does bring up a good point though... all we need is some really environmentally friendly and long lasting white paint (that doesn't get dirty) and we could easily slow down climate change. Unfortunately white paint gets dirty real quick and the dirt absorbs radiation the same as a dark paint.

  • Fox host demands video of JD Vance having sex with a couch

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  • It's not a slur. The saying is from the movie Idiocracy where society talks like that.

    I was implying that Lemmy is in that state of Idiocracy where real issues aren't discussed but calling everyone a couch fucker who you disagree with is ok.

  • Fox host demands video of JD Vance having sex with a couch

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  • Yeah let's talk about some stupid meme instead of real issues like single payer healthcare, inequality, and I dunno maybe the fact we just had the hottest ever recorded temperatures on Earth in human history.

    Filling the narrative with this drama detracts from focusing public attention on real issues.

    But I guess this Vance guy prob just needs to drink what plants crave and not talk like a fag and everything will be ok.

  • Germans Combat Climate Change From Their Balconies: Plug-and-play solar panels are popping up in yards and on balcony railings across Germany, driven by bargain prices and looser regulations.

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  • Pure sine wave or modified? Modified (square wave) are not good for electronics, particularly computers.

  • We Just Lived Through Two of the Hottest Days Ever. Does Anyone Care?

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  • or in the case of parents buying SUVs to make their own children safe, children are 8 times more likely to die when struck by an SUV versus a passenger car. (ie: in their own driveway) And that's not even factoring the added risk of blindspots for children too small to be seen from the driver seat!

    children are eight times more likely to die when struck by a SUV compared to those struck by a passenger car

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437522000810

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  • We've made more than people think.

    If you went back in time 100 years ago and told them who was president in 2008 and reelected again in 2012, they would put you in an insane asylum.

    I think people really don't care about race or gender in POTUS as much as the media puts out, people really just want to not go bankrupt from medical debt, or not have to pay $500,000 for their childrens college and other "bread and butter" personal issues.

    99% of the US is progressive, they just don't know it yet. Everyone benefits from improved policy, that message just needs to be communicated better in a way that even the most stubborn conservative will understand. Bernie Sanders was proof of that because he was capturing the working class and it terrified the 0.01%

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  • Why not AOC? Really need some young blood and someone who is progressive. She also meets constitutional age requirements now.

  • Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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  • I just looked up some of her positions and she does seem a bit more progressive than Biden was. She cosponsored Bernie's medicare for all bill a few years ago and supports marijuana legalization.

    I think this whole mess could actually be a net positive for democrats as it reinvigorates enthusiasm ("hope and change", version 2024)

  • Treasury, IRS announce 'major milestone' of $1 billion in past-due taxes collected from millionaires

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  • Political control is largely a byproduct of media control/propaganda. No amount of reason will protect against never ending repetition of lies. (ie: Fox news profit model)

    Im a Fiscally Responsible Republican and this is HORRIBLE! We would be MUCH better off if instead of having Job producers paying Taxes we instead had welfare queens and freeloaders paying Taxes!

    It's not true, but if I repeat the narrative 100x and the truth only once, the narrative wins.

  • Treasury, IRS announce 'major milestone' of $1 billion in past-due taxes collected from millionaires

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  • I mean the small government types are not the ones who typically pay attention to what actually is shown to work or not work.

    Their view is big govt needs big taxes for big spending and big IRS steals people's hard earned money. No counterpoint or evidence will ever persuade them otherwise because it's a core belief that is largely beyond questioning.