@riley weird. most of us were calling it ahh-chen at the #postmarketOSandAlpineLinuxConference2026

Votes are not private and never will be.

There have been some discussions about whether Threadiverse software should only federate out the number of votes and perhaps some anonymised voter IDs, rather than information that identifies individual users. This would prevent vote snooping via sites like Lemvotes. However, even if something like that were implemented, instance admins would still be able to snoop on their own users if they so wished. So imo, it’s better to just accept that votes are public information.

Personally I don’t see the issue with it. My principle when it comes to voting is upvoting stuff I want others to see and only downvote things I don’t think anyone would want to see (like spam). So if for some odd reason someone is interested enough to check my voting history, I don’t care. What’s the worst that could happen? Someone on the internet disagrees with my votes? Oh no! How will I ever survive?!

As a side note, Lemmy’s developers seem to have a strong opinion that voter information shouldn’t be displayed publicly. For example, here’s an issue they opened in the Mbin repo. While I disagree with their stance on vote visibility, Nutomic has a valid point there: Lemmy doesn’t mark voting activity as public when federating it out, so there’s an argument to be made that other software should not display individual votes coming from Lemmy.

@TheBreadmonkey Of course they do. Hence the familiar phrase or saying when a bad situation needs to be addressed: “it’s time to clean horse”

@ai6yr
In colder climates we sometimes use similar to shield cars from snow / freezing.

@slowenough @ATLeagle @central The keyword you're after is "Moore Computer" I think. Fonts In Use has a good page on its history: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7324/moore-computer

This weekend is the Fediverse Book Fair, a virtual book fair open to everyone on the fediverse.

This weekend, authors and publishers are encouraged to post about their books, or related subjects like research, with the #⁠FediBookFair hashtag.

Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find books to buy, and interesting authors that they may wish to follow.

If you don't want to see these posts, please filter the hashtag.

The excellent @FediTips has articles explaining how to follow or filter hashtags.

There is more information about the fair at https://authorhelp.uk/fedibookfair/

Enjoy the fair!

#bookstodon @bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon

@TheBreadmonkey good morning, maybe it’s a Glen because nothing rhymes with Dale. Could have a merry band of quail. 🤔

@ariadne More like Aa'en, if you don't have a good 'h' notation, which does happen to be a problem wih English. German 'ch' is pretty much the 'x' sound of Mexico, as pronounced by Spanish speakers. If it was a Slavic city, English speakers would spell the name 'Aakhen', and then mispronounce it by trying to make an occlusive 'h' sound. (Properly pronounced German 'ch' does not really call for occlusion.)

@pfefferle danke für das Angebot. Ich komme wahrscheinlich darauf zurück. Aktuell habe ich allerdings ein wenig die Nase voll davon. 😄 @annette

what i do not understand is why the WA governor had a photo shoot with microsoft's head lobbyist and talked about cutting regulations when WA is one of the best regulatory environments for business already

this is stupid

@yatil not like we started from a baseline of decent quality to begin with …

This will be awesome, I can’t wait to use the website

@aaron @fesshole

I would have zero shame in doing this

@kc 50 Leute finden sich easy. Mein Newsletter hat 400 und ich poste nur alle Jubeljahre mal. Darunter sind sicher 50 de-Adressen.

@yatil Ja, fühle, deswegen der Gedanke. Wenn ich das eh mache.

@dansup a great tool. I love it already. Thanks for your work.

I'm almost afraid to open this can of worms, but...

Hey, #weavers! Hi!

What's the simplest, low cost, low equipment form of weaving that someone could try out, someone who's completely new to it?

And aside from having someone to learn directly from in person (I wish!), what's another good way to learn? Do you have a website to recommend?

#weaving