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In order to launch a meaningful DDoS there must be thousands of compromised machines to use. I would absolutely say compromising such a large amount of machines is hacking.

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Yes, I’m aware that instance admins can see the votes. I fully intend to spin up my own instance and investigate. After I complete my report on vote manipulation with evidence and send it to you, will you will ban those accounts?

You’re not wrong but you are part of the problem that lets malicious accounts game the algorithms.

Why are you against something that would target bad actors?

There are several big name accounts on the fediverse that are very likely committing vote manipulation. If you mention it in the thread you will be brigaded. I see it everyday from the same accounts. Those same threads will have highly upvoted AI slop that most times doesn’t even relate to the thread. Not even a Markov chain, just completely unrelated. The same people that upvoted the original post all upvote the same AI slop. Comments that are related to the topic have much lower engagement.

I was going to spin up my own instance to track these people and later put out a report but I am currently way too busy to do that. Maybe in a couple weeks I can get started. If anyone else is as annoyed as me about this feel free to get started tracking these people and share the data with everyone please.

If the instance admin can still correlate the two, then whats the purpose of this feature?

Wouldn’t they be able to do the exact same upvote/downvote calcs as any other instance admin?

Not even professionals like Torvalds would have the ability to to all that

To change the warning? Are you serious? That’s basic stuff. Like really basic.

You seem to know a lot. So why not make those changes yourself? If you want bigger flashier warnings then do it. There is nothing stopping you. Depending on your skill you could have had it done in less time than you spent on this meme and thread.

I’m not trying to be argumentative but you sound like you want the linux community to build what you want and disregard their own wants. In addition, you want the community to be extra super nice to you when they do it. The sense of entitlement is astounding.

A good one would also be the whole debate about warning measures in apt so it doesn’t just happily remove essential system components like xorg.

Yes, there was that single safety measure.

You are contradicting yourself.

There’s a good reason fatal warnings are almost always red or yellow and there are literally pictograms of human skulls in warning signs.

I mean this is the most respectful way possible… You are looking for a walled garden that protects its users. Linux is not that, never has been, and probably never will be. There are other options like Windows and MacOS that fill that role.

There are some extremely toxic members of the community but your complaint comes from the way Linux runs. If you/they don’t like how it runs then why are you forcing it?

And use 10x the electricity to get this slop.

abolish billionaires and extreme wealth inequality

This needs to be done first before any universal support is even possible. The billionaires are stealing our universal everything.

Try not to die for your country or beliefs. Make the other guy die for theirs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/

Sounds a lot like Secular Buddhism with a dash of Stoicism. I like it.

I had a Pontiac Fiero. It really was terrible in every way but I love that piece of shit. It has been the only car I have owned that appreciated in value. I sold it for almost double what I paid less than a year after I bought it.