Exactly. But the people I favor of billionaires don’t care.

Regulation is stripping freedom from people. We want freedom, we can’t regulate people.

I think that’s an argument.

Maybe don’t bring social security retirement age until it. They already want to raise that. This would just be another excuse to do it.

Luckily discord is awful at filling useful information out of its history. So, unlike something like Reddit, dropping it for something else shouldn’t be a big deal.

Never heard of this thing. Does it work well?

You ever see how they make a plumbus?

I didn’t read the article either. What’s it about?

How open is this? Can anybody download the data that is collected? Or is this like Waze, which did something similar, then just sold out to Google?

Maybe instances should be assigned a rank for how dependable they are. Length of time active, number of active users… Stuff like that and each instance keeps track of its own rankings for each instance it is federated with. Put the upvote and those stats in a magic box to calculate the actual upvote value.

This is the problem. All the algorithms are based on the upvote count. Bad actors will abuse this.

Votes are just a number that determine what everybody sees. This will be manipulated by all the bad actors of this world once Lemmy becomes mainstream. Politicians, dictators, Hollywood, tech companies…

Why do you need this?