Yeah, let’s make things less abstract and talk about real examples.

piefed.social is not sending the real voters out. You think that alone should be grounds to get lemmy.ml (your instance) to defederate them. Am I understanding you correctly?

I’m not sure if this has happened yet

I have more than 15 topic-specific instances, and we are in absolute agreement about why this is the best arrangement for group federation.

Also, thank you very much for leading by example. Lets hope the bigger instances also see the value in the initiative.

Yes, but that’s kind of my point?

if downvotes are public, the admin of your instance can see who is downvoting you and then they can take action. If the downvotes are coming from an instance that hides the real user for every vote, you and the admin are SOL.

If the same user downvotes everything I’ve ever said,

Right. How would you know what “the same user” is? Let’s say that your posts get downvoted at random intervals by 5-10 users in the first 45-120 minutes. They all have different user names. What are you going to do? Create a report against any particular user and hope that the mods look into it?

Brigaders are less likely to engage in the conversation and just mass-downvote, or they might simply comment with their own id and downvote with an alt.

We can be here all day playing these cat-and-mouse games. The so-called “authorized fetch” from Mastodon is also another shortsighted idea.

Really, why can’t we just stop pretending that we have any privacy in social media and just educate users to use the proper tools?

How would that work? How would an admin separate downvotes from brigaders and legitimate users who happen to downvote a comment?

That creates an incentive for trolls to create accounts at the popular instances using this mechanism in order to destroy their reputation.

Replace “hashing” with “encrypted” (perhaps just using a symmetric key that the admin sets up) and then it gets impossible to know for any outsiders who is the real user behind the vote.

I for one just wish people understood once and for all that anything you do on social media is public.

If you are not comfortable backing up your opinion or action, then don’t do it.

How long until it gets abused, and trolls start brigading though instances that hide their votes?

Sure, I know it exists. It is somewhat stale in content, though.

there are no bots posting to !emacs@communick.news and the selfhosted.forum/gearhead.town/metacritics.zone communities since at least November of last year. Could that restriction be lifted?

Specific to emacs: maybe it would be better to outright move the community to programming.dev?

I’m curious about what do you mean by “cheapest options”. Do you remember how much you were paying then?

IIRC, StackOverflow Careers kind of established the price per posting around $300. After they came up every other job posting site was charging around that.

For CareerCupid, I want to make a single flat rate of $89/month and let companies make as many job listings as they want. I think that the value for a company should not be in charging per posted job, but to give them access to the whole database in a way that can help them make hiring decisions directly.

I get why they resorted to buying all this AI fuckery to try to more aggressively filter resumes.

I get it as well, but I think that this “send us your resume” and we will judge you based on it is such an outdated concept we could get rid of it entirely.

Imagine if we got something like Wikidata applied to the “professional social network” graph of the whole world. If “let’s set out to build a map of all the ~2 billion people who are economically active” was somewhat impossible to think about 20 years ago, today it’s the kind of project that can be easily managed on modest infrastructure.

I completely agree.

(I want to try something different here. Instead of a fully fleshed out post, I’d like to just start with a draft of some ideas and I hope that it is enough to generate a conversation. I’ll take the relevant responses and use them to keep improving this article)

But if you were so eager to give feedback, perhaps you could’ve started with something more productive than yet-another smutty comment that serves only to make you feel better than the plebs who use and get any value out of ChatGPT?

And if your first instinct is to comment on a joke, in the first paragraph to pass judgement…?

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