Very nuanced take, I like it.

Dick the birthday boy? What are you doing here?

Mister Plinkett? What are you doing here?

countries that have better voting systems that allow for more than two parties are the exception, not the norm.

Are you sure about that? I have no numbers to back it up, but at least here in Europe many countries have more than two parties to choose from, and the winning parties form a governing coalition (alliance).

Unless by beter voting system you mean something like Ranked voting etc, in which case I agree, that is unfortunately very rare.

Not my opinion, but from what I’m seeing it seems more like in this thread: Left = Good, Right = Nazis

Wait, is “advocating death for” the evolution of “right to exist”? That sure escalated quickly.

I think that’s what they’re saying: in most of the world it’s used as a gradient/spectrum, just a few countries consider it absolutes (you’re either left or right).

You guys?

Eurasia is a single continent,

Depends on who you ask

the distinction between the two is cultural.

Fully agreed there.

That sucks :/ Maybe the new ones will eventually show up if you subscribe.

!cat@lemmy.world

If anything, wouldn’t that make vote abuse even easier? Just send 100 upvotes with 100 random hashes.

Can he phase through walls? :o (Wild cards)

This completely goes against the entire philosophy of the Fediverse

Care to elaborate on that? As far as I know this is built in to all the ActivityPub applications.

Also, there’s way too much trust in instances.

I say there’s too much care about votes. Because someone can just give themselves infinite votes from their private instance, it makes it all the more worthless.

Instances should have their own settings on what instances are allowed to keep a local copy.

There’s a setting for that, it’s called the allowed list - configures who are allowed to federate with you. Beyond that - if it’s out, it’s out.

For transparency, this is what a Like payload looks like. The first part is just context for the activitiypub protocol and is pretty much the same for each message. The second part contains the actual data of the message, and the most personal detail in it is the url of your own profile, and the url of the post/comment you like:

{
	"@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
	{
		"lemmy": "https://join-lemmy.org/ns#",
		"litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#",
		"pt": "https://joinpeertube.org/ns#",
		"sc": "http://schema.org/",
		"ChatMessage": "litepub:ChatMessage",
		"commentsEnabled": "pt:commentsEnabled",
		"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
		"matrixUserId": "lemmy:matrixUserId",
		"postingRestrictedToMods": "lemmy:postingRestrictedToMods",
		"removeData": "lemmy:removeData",
		"stickied": "lemmy:stickied",
		"moderators":
		{
			"@type": "@id",
			"@id": "lemmy:moderators"
		},
		"expires": "as:endTime",
		"distinguished": "lemmy:distinguished",
		"language": "sc:inLanguage",
		"identifier": "sc:identifier"
	}],
	"actor": "--URL OF THE USER PROFILE--",
	"object": "--URL OF THE POST OR COMMENT--",
	"type": "Like",
	"id": "-- URL TO THE INSTANCE THAT PASSED THE MESSAGE--",
	"audience": "-- URL TO THE COMMUNITY THE POST IS PART OF--"
}

I don’t think email is a good example because you’re in complete control of who you send an email to.

You can easily check which instances your server is federated with in the footer of your server. If any of those external servers have subscriptions to the community you’re posting in, they will receive an update, so it’s safe to assume it’s being sent to all of them.

That’s exactly what https://lemmit.online is. Just one bot to block, or one instance to defederate from. It doesn’t post anywhere else, so interested users can just request a subreddit on there, and follow what they want.

looks at post title

That’s just the user count though. I haven’t seen much evidence of much bot created comments. (I mean, there’s @bot@lemmit.online though…)