Who actually gives a fuck?
A lot of people do.
What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager's snarky "who cares" attitude doesn't mean that this isn't important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.
Understandtable, but if that's all it is, then there are already aggregate search websites.
Searching through that app still requires a plugin, and all the plugins I saw just seemed to be related to specific sites anyway - so you might as well just search on those sites.
Or is there a plugin that stands out over the rest?
You and everyone else in the fediverse needs to stop with this fanaticism that anything centralized is automatically a bad thing.
I gave up completely on Google accounts after they kept flagging make-believe security issues and made it near impossible to verify that it's yours.
Even if you have a secondary email configured (and this would be what it's for) - but oh, no, that's still not good enough for them.
Then they pulled the utter bullshit of requiring your phone number "so they can make sure it's you" - but since there was never a phone number associated with the account, this is clearly nothing more than a data grab so they can associate real identities with their accounts.
That was the last straw for me, and I decided that their service was utter garbage, completely unreliable, and not worth using anymore.
A U-Haul doesn't need to achieve those speeds in order to kill multiple people in a single surge.
As for what's on what level, it all depends on the context. If we're talking about one-on-one violence, then a gun is no more deadly than a knife assuming that there isn't a significant difference between the two people involved.
If we're talking one person killing several, then a gun has an advantage at range while a knife has an advantage at close distances.
My original points still hold - if one person is trying to kill another, then that's the problem, not the tool that's used. Putting the blame on the tool is an ultimately fruitless endeavor - people can and will always be able to find another tool. The fact that people are getting murderous in the first place is what the real problem is.
The US cohabitated with guns for many years without mass shootings being nearly the epidemic that it currently is. There was no significant change in guns themselves that led to that change in mass shootings. But you know what did change? The internet came along.
The internet makes it really easy for someone with dark thoughts to find an echo chamber with a hundred contemptible numbnuts egging them on to do whatever they were contemplating doing.
Addressing that will be far more effective then trying to ban any particular tool. Take away guns? Then people will drive vehicles into crowds. Take away cars? Then people will make bombs. Take away explosives? Then people will use poison. Take away poisons? Then people will learn how to make bioweapons in their garage.
It's not about the tool. It's about thinking it's okay to murder someone just because you don't like them.
I disagree wholeheartedly.
Having your voting history public also constrains people from participating in the community if the things they support or object to would cause harassment or harm from people who know who they are, which is not always preventable, for example a shared household, using kbin from work (activity monitored), etc...
I could easily see an Amazon worker getting fired because they were logged upvoting pro-union threads. They wouldn't even need to be doing this from a company network - just accessing kbin once on their network for any reason would have their user name associated with them, and then Amazon can simply monitor their activity on kbin even when they are using it from home.
Look at everything Amazon has done to their workers and tell me that this isn't a believable scenario. And that's just one example.
Having votes public can cause real harm to people.
It also constrains people from participating in the community if the things they support or object to would cause harassment or harm from people who know who they are, which is not always preventable, for example a shared household, using kbin from work (activity monitored), etc...
I could easily see an Amazon worker getting fired because they were logged upvoting pro-union threads. They wouldn't even need to be doing this from a company network - just accessing kbin once on their network for any reason would have their user name associated with them, and then Amazon can simply monitor their activity on kbin even when they are using it from home.
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