Also, mass bot’ing of votes can critically stifle online discussion. Without visibility what course of action can one take to defend themselves aside from making unverified claims of manipulation.

The people complaining about privacy have it fucked up imho.

Lemmy wasn’t built for privacy. It was built to combat censorship and they are not synonymous. Again, imo hiding any sort of public engagement or impressions is just more censorship.

To simplify my point, were all here to engage with one another, so unless your being an asshole or aren’t living up to your own values whatcha gotta hide?

“That dude commented saying he doesn’t like cats. Get him!”

See how stupid that sounds?

EDIT: I downvoted the above post… 😬

Sir Elon Epstein Musk already removed the ability to see likes… I wonder what his motive was… 🫤

My answer is yes to the original question. I speak with my votes, my comments, and my engagements. If I wanted to be separated in anyway from this I would just use an alt. Hell though, I even gave up on having a porn alt on twitter and I just own it if I like something. 🤷‍♂️

Mmhmm 😁

Haven’t heard of Organic Maps before but I just installed from the apple app store for solidarity 🫡

This should be front and center, caching won’t be able to make up for that…