Im not going to upvote something if I don’t agree with it. I understand the power of voting, it increases or decreases visibility. But I am not going to willingly increase the visibility of something I don’t agree with.

I am literally here, now, commenting on this because I am reading the article to this on reddit and … I can’t believe they are going to start punishing upvotes! That is the final stray for Reddit. Its dead. Gone the way of Digg. I am literally here now to start moving over to Lemmy.

I just realized - and must keep in mind, with a federated platform like lemmy, all of your upvotes and downvotes are broadcasted across the network. ANYONE could track your upvotes and downvotes in THIS system.

I had no idea how much I valued voting privacy.

People even knowing their next door neighbors NAME is leaps and bounds ahead of where we are right now.

which is why i refused to pay for tv/movies. I refused to spend my hard earned money on their “circus”

memes: easy as F to produce propaganda for the rich of any country to use on the poor of any other country

Does it still save in one of the most basic but still GIGANTIC file sizes?

Good. I’m surprised that all governments havn’t banned this chinese spyware.

1.) its usually a single persons job to do “social media outreach”, not most of the employees

2.) People shouldn’t be using their personal devices to do government work, period.

3.) slippery slope? why would someone use queer dating apps on their GOVERNMENT device? this is a stupid argument

4.) This is about GOVERNMENT, not private business. You are conflating the two.

So, i was feeling pretty apocalyptic about this too - until it learned that “micro plastics” include any synthetic fibers like polyester. i mean, of course our clothing lint will get everywhere