what's your plan for when AI collapses and you have to explain the years you spent forgetting how to program on purpose

Sure, but what they’re gonna do with that is the question. Like even if there is a profile on my Lemmy account, which ads are they going to send me? How? Where is that data going to be worth anything?

@Pirigoto no

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.

Completely public

Like someone else said, how would you feel if someone was collecting all user votes across the threadiverse and tracking who likes and dislikes each post, say about politics or just a news story?

We are mostly / usually anonymous here but like everything online, I wouldn’t totally count on that. Not to sound like too much of a crackpot, but “Enemy of the state” could be a real label some government could put on you, based on your voting, in the future.

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For years Putin's diplomat Kirill Dmitriev has worked to destroy NATO unity, and isolate Ukraine, and now Melania Trump has invited him into the White House.

Putin has given this man the task of ensuring Ukraine has no support, and there he is, shaking hands with the first lady, smiling, while representing the Russian president who is wanted by the Hague for war crimes.

May the new Congress investigate the hell out of the first family and all its corrupt dealings with the Russian murderers.

From the technical side anyone can spin up their own Lemmy instance and view all votes, but I'm curious at what the community's perspective on how "private" that is. I think Mbin already shows upvoters? Piefed allows anonymous voting. I also know there are sites which show all voting history, but assuming those are fairly disliked.

My general questions to the community: - Do you expect your votes to be private, or just not shown in the UI? - Would per-voter votes showing up on another aggregator platform bother you, even though your instance already shares them with other servers?

For context I'm the dev doing some two way bridge interop between atproto + Threadiverse, in atproto the votes/likes are generally publicly accessible, you just look at the users repo through something like pdsls.dev, they're readable and archivable by anyone. In my opinion this isn't that big of a problem since it's fairly hard to look at and discern (Ex all my votes: https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:lmdkqemqrqnfiix72pyjhfey/social.coves.feed.vote). Ultimately trying to figure out if there's already a mutual understanding that they are public and we can just mirror them or whether they should stay hidden as an aggregate.

@futurebird at least, it's one unneeded thing that does not take up much space

People with substance vs people with shallow knowledge.

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@MsDropbear42 fixed :)

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should i probably use a more robust system to manage tasks for this project: yes.

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Am I going to continue writing tasks as todo items in one single org file:

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@aesthr geometrically, 46% seems right in relation to the sum of both curves, overlap included. If you plot the curve with the subtraction of the intersect, is the result plausible?

Nothing I do on the Fediverse is private lmao.

From the technical side anyone can spin up their own Lemmy instance and view all votes,

Or just view them on lemvotes.org.

@dpflug I understand the sentiment, but there are no timezones in nature.

Nor is there any reason, in this globalised society, why we couldn't all be running off Swatch Internet Time 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time