While this could be a good idea in theory, I guess in practice many people will be dishonest and just vote for whomever they wanted from the beginning

The nice thing about the fediverse is that you could start your own instance and not federate with them

Ignoring the problem doesn’t make it better

On top of this, someone could make an instance dedicated to that niche subject and similar topics, and you could subscribe with the account you already have somewhere else instead of having to periodically check that niche instance.

Right now the problem is finding those instances, and generally finding reliable instances that won’t suddenly go offline

From the app no. Even if you could get into the pokemon go app and mod it, they would quickly notice the modified app and ban you

Do you mean from Scarlet Violet? I could send you one from Legends Arceus if that’s ok. Obviously they won’t be in a cherish ball

This was a series of decisions with good intentions that went poorly in the long run.

Our customer wanted us to setup a system so their users could track their products from their site from a variety of carriers; but their backend was very old and difficult to work with, and their network very locked down.

We were struggling to setup a single carrier, so we eventually decided to setup a new server with modern tooling on our own network so we could develop this and other “complicated” features with less pain, and they would only have to make a single exception to their firewall.

Fast forward a year and:

• They didn’t request any more “difficult” features, so the server was serving a single API
• One of our carrier’s API keys had expired and nobody noticed because they weren’t using it, and they didn’t request support for additional carriers either
• Somebody on their security team noticed the strange calls to our servers and demanded we moved the API to their infrastructure anyway

There is also a limit to the number of files the browser can download in parallel, so if many files have to be fetched, they have to wait until the previous downloads are finished. This slows down performance even more