You’d have to change the specification there. That is possible but it will take some time.

Then they should do so, these issues need to be fixed ASAP.

Still you’d need a way to make votes not bound to a user and still hard to spoof.

Obfuscating user IDs via a hash or something would seem like the way to make it work. I'm not a professional programmer, I only know a little bit of python, so I have no idea if I'm talking nonsense on that front. And whilst still not an ideal solution, but sharing non-private votes with your own instance admin and have them share only the total vote count with other instances is another solution. That way you need only trust your instance admin, which is choosable and can also be yourself.

That is what it means. If you have one then go ahead.

Putting the onus on me is a shitty thing to do. I'm not the one running this site in any capacity, but this is an issue that many users are unhappy with. If the issue with the site won't or even can't be fixed, then I will simply not use the site. I don't know how many people feel the same on that front, but I'd imagine there's quite a few.

Agreed, I am incredibly confused by what seems to be the majority reaction to this.

I've never been particularly involved with the FOSS community, though I do use a few FOSS apps and generally appreciate their view on what FOSS means. I also strongly appreciate data privacy, and it was my observation that the FOSS community was (generally) relatively the same way. So to see this reaction is very surprising. It's quite literally the same terrible argument of "Why fear it if you have nothing to hide" used against multiple data privacy concerns throughout the years.

I think the worst are the bad faith "But Reddit...!" arguments. For one, we're not on Reddit anymore, this is about Lemmy's issues that can be corrected. And for two, whilst Reddit potentially outsourcing that data to the highest bidder is far from ideal, at the very least the data wasn't outright PUBLIC to anyone who wishes to set up a simple server.

Ah yes, because the practical option is to be constantly switching accounts and instances based on what you want to look at for 5 minutes each.

I agree with what you're saying, but that's not the point of this post. This post is about the fact that an individual user's vote history is semi-public.

i.e. if you were to upvote my comment, anyone who owns an instance would be able to see it was you who upvoted it. Likewise for if you downvote it.

Whilst I'm sure there are those who don't care, I'd personally rather not have any rando who can be bothered to set up a Lemmy instance know what I've voted on. I'd honestly rather just not vote.

There was a patent filed back in the Wii U days (September 2015) which also described a scroll wheel trigger. Looking back at it now, it seems very Switch-like, though people back then probably would have assumed it was a Wii U Gamepad 2. Maybe it was an old prototype for the Switch that they've converted into a Switch 2?

Here's the patent, and here's the linked PDF with some images.

This sounds like a very different show to the one this post is about.

Essentially my thoughts going into this as well. I was hoping it would strike a vibe similar to "Senpai ga Uzai Kouhai no Hanashi (My Senpai is Annoying)" with alternative roles, but so far I'm relatively unimpressed.

I was planning to watch the whole season as the trailer and premise seemed nice, but I may have to bump it down to 3 episodes.

Can they keep with the same new formula?

Yes, absolutely.

Should they?

I'm on the fence about this. On the one hand, it's a great formula, and many current Zelda fans have grown up with and have known little else (except maybe Skyward Sword HD). Nintendo has had great success with it, so I can't imagine they'd depart from it soon, as much as attempting to predict Nintendo is a futile endeavour. On the other, I have my gripes with it, and I dearly miss the classic formula.

I think at the very least, they're going to turn this into a trilogy within the same Hyrule. I don't know if it's my imagination, but the oceans and Eventide Island seemed a lot more fleshed out this time around, so maybe they'll do a Wind Waker type thing to be a counterpart like BotW is to Zelda 1 and TotK is to OoT/MM.

Based on some of the BotW concept art, it's clear the team is capable of coming up with a lot of ideas. The "Modern" Zelda concept almost certainly inspired the Master Cycle DLC, and the "Hyrule Invasion" concept potentially also inspired the Zonai stuff. So I think they'll come up with neat stuff regardless.

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do the rules apply to the instance where you have your account, or to the instance where you’re posting/commenting?

That is essentially what I was asking. It kind of seems like it's both, but I'm no fediverse expert.

I guess it really just depends how much of a stickler the lemmy.world mods are, and/or if they have any way of finding out I'm linking to stuff like that.

Not sure where to ask this, so I'll ask here. Linking to pirate sites (not content) is okay here as I understand it. However my account is with Lemmy.world, which in its "rules" specifically states "Protect our community from harassment, malicious or illegal content". Would I technically be at the whim of Lemmy.world by linking to pirate sites, or do I have some leeway here?

I also think there's an element of time spent with Reddit. For some of us who've been with the site for over a decade, this is the last straw with Reddit. For many others, its their first incident.

Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Lemmy should be viewed as "spite sites". If the entire focus of the community here is to point and laugh at Reddit's failures, rather than actually provide an adequate site's worth of unique content, people will quickly get tired of it and leave.

Of course, it's the hot topic at the moment so it's understandable, but I hope we'll move away from it at some point.