I miss forums so much. A federated backend for forums would be nice. I’m so tired of having these giant communities of angry strangers if I want to talk about anything

Well, that’s their point. With a smaller population we want a smaller canvas.

What better way to show how much you don’t care about Reddit than to spend all your time talking about it?

It’s strange to note that if Google had just casually worked on the feature, started gradually integrating it with YouTube etc, they might have beat insta to the punch and also really capitalized on Facebook hate. Instead they made one massive marketing blunder after another.

All matrix is to me is a classic late nineties action sci fi movie.

IRC is hugely flawed but also, I miss it. Could we have a federated discord? It’d basically be irc but easier to find stuff right?

I think it has a lot of value. I don’t really see the point of anonymous upvotes in the first place.

For myself, I’ve already just assumed this stuff is public. I don’t know why I’d assume it was private, in fact. I have a few different accounts and I use them for different things, but anything I want to keep off the public internet doesn’t go on the public internet, on Lemmy or Reddit or Facebook or anywhere. It’s 2023, I think most people have some understanding of this already. Threatening to out data I already assumed no privacy on is not terribly threatening.

That’s fine. Fwiw I don’t even have a button for it on my instance. You shouldn’t assume everyone is going to share your usage though, in fact I think most people don’t.

If a person thinks your idea is a bad one, downvoting and walking away is just about the least aggressive they can be, though. Especially if they see other people have already left comments that reflect their opinion so they couldn’t add anything.

I think it’s weird to pin this on the lack of central authority given that all the evidence is that any service with a central authority has been deeply and woefully inappropriate with their security. Absolutely, you should always treat any service like this as though it’s untrustworthy.

The logical flaw here is the implicit assumption that Reddit, or any other corporate social medium, is safe for privacy just because they’re corporate. At least with Lemmy I can set up a server with my friends and know where my info is being stored and who has the keys.