Inept

Inept, 7 months ago

Understood and agreed.

Nobody is making any of us use The Software^™^, my question concerns your decision. Trust is an entirely separate concept and varies greatly depending on the audience.

BTW, It’s not just Reddit. ;)

Inept, 7 months ago

Teach me your ways. I want to learn.

Inept, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Historically availability of source code has prevented that sort of thing since forever. Plus you can’t favor a specific instance, that’s the beauty of the protocol.

Availability of source code and actual auditing are entirely different.

It’s like saying google can favourite a specific email provider, they can’t,

They very well can as a private platform. For the record, google does favor specific vendors through their Google Partnership program and similarly through search results as recently found through court proceedings.

but all data on Lemmy is public

It’s also managed by a single source of truth, ie. databases… correct?

So what are you worried about?

I’m not worried about anything. I asked a question to a forum which seemed to superficially accommodate questions, my bad.

Mods moderating content in ways you don’t like?

I literally don’t care about moderated content, censorship, or whatever.

Maybe you’re worried that malicious software will run on your phone?

Nope.

I can see that you’re not on that level since you still don’t understand that open source is needed for transparency.

Yes, I’m lower than you. Teach me.

Or maybe you’re worried the server itself will host malicious content?

Counter question, how many straws are you grasping at here?

Realize how many questions you levied and that I was actually kind enough to take the time to answer most of them even if possibly rhetorical.

You insulted me and I’m okay with your opinions that I’m ignorant, “not on the level”, or whatever. I literally just asked a question.

EDIT: I failed to proofread and had a redundancy collision.

Inept, 7 months ago

Thank you for your response. May I ask (since you seem very knowledgeable): Could a singular instance manipulate their backend votes on a single post and have it replicate in order to garner more/less interest?

Example:

<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">UPDATE</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Posts
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">SET</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Updoots </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">= </span><span style="color:#0086b3;">1000000    </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">-- or SET Updoots = 0
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">WHERE</span><span style="color:#323232;"> PostId </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">= </span><span style="color:#0086b3;">1</span><span style="color:#323232;">;
</span>

I’ll admit that I have not properly studied the ActivityPub implementation as described by activitypub.rocks, but we’re all continuously learning.

Inept, 7 months ago

TBH, Google itself is kinda “icky” and has been for awhile.