From this announcement, in my opinion.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/213731

I would like to use star.vote, if at all possible, but I understand it would be harder to control who is eligible to vote on an external site.

It'll be interesting to see how the current plan works and what refinements are made.

Try Seal & VLC instead of streaming.

https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

Also, LibreTorrent is useful for when you want to download something small.

https://gitlab.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent

If you like pictures, there is a visualization of the RCV/IRV flaws.

https://fosstodon.org/users/tcely/statuses/110291193062264304

Is it too late to add the link?

https://mastodon.social/users/QasimRashid/statuses/110589556149485451

A fair number of vulnerabilities exist where a patch or mitigation exists, but hasn't been widely applied for various reasons.

They've been essentially read-only for years, in my experience. It's stupid to go closed source, but they weren't easy to work with to get things fixed before now either.

I posted a link for this. The custom tabs documentation is at: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/

https://sh.itjust.works/post/354507

RCV/IRV has been a scam for more than a century. Please look into how that was invented and how it actually performed. More than half the places that tried it actually removed it.

I don't know why people keep being fooled by complexity, but they do.

Nay.

I don't like bots much, but this is still an assumption. I don't want to get into preventative de-federation, if it is at all possible to avoid it.

The Meta/Facebook instance(s) should be though.

Why are you trying to view everything and ban things you don't like instead of viewing your subscriptions and only joining communities you do like?

CPG Grey has a lot of good videos, but ranked voting is not the way.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem makes this very clear.

https://star.vote/ is a good site to keep handy if you're looking for a more expressive voting system.

By default, choosing approval voting is the simplest way with very good performance.

https://youtu.be/orybDrUj4vA

Why would my way of counting the approval ratio rather than approval-only be of any disadvantage?

That's just how voting systems work. Even seemingly insignificant changes to the algorithm can have outsized impacts on how well it performs.

Plurality versus Approval is a specific example of this. Just changing "choose one" to "choose as many as you approve of" significantly impacts the amount of data that's captured and often the outcome because of the effects on voters' behaviors.

I liked the suggestion of more information. When we have it all figured out those details should be included as you suggested.

The community is at a different level than instances or federation. For example, the rules a community agrees on aren't typically related to your instance or handled by the instance moderation team / admin.

Every instance will have some kind of terms of use that you must follow to keep an account on that instance.

A local community specifically for the bureaucracy of the local instance is also a special case.

In general, posting / replying in communities should be encouraged no matter which instance the community or your account was created on.

However, if you are breaking either your instance's rules or causing problems for users on another instance you can expect to be reported and likely have some moderation actions taken against your account. Basically, just having an external account isn't a license to behave badly.

Bad faith reports don't imply actual trolls for users to personally deal with.

Performing moderation actions on good faith reports from users is desirable.

Disconnecting your own users from content they find useful because of the volume of reports that they can't see or prevent, just because you can't be bothered to do the moderation work is undesirable.

I like some of those suggestions. However, I don't think down voting or abstaining should be supported. You either support an option by up voting or you take no action.

Approval voting systems have well studied behaviors and we should not deviate from that without a compelling reason.

Every approval / upvote is a distinct user endorsement for an option. The option with the most users endorsing it should be selected when that number exceeds 51% of the active users set we decide on.

Excess should be used for bounties to get features we want implemented added to Lemmy.

A high enough bounty and they can hire a part-time developer to work on our selected improvement.

After creating an account and agreeing to follow the rules they aren't an outsider anymore.

Why would it matter to you if the people who do have an account here voted to add a new rule then?

Your own instance has the set of rules you need to follow. Do you want to let us decide what those will be?

I don't want people who haven't agreed to follow the same set of rules deciding what the rules are that I must follow.

It's like how much of the world decided it didn't enjoy colonial rule so much.

Ugh. That was satire, not a playbook.

High volume of bad faith reports from the target instance on users here (e.g., if someone talks about racism here and a hostile instance reports it for "white genocide" or some other bs). This may seem obscure, but it's a real issue on Mastodon.

There is no way we should defederate an instance because of this. Particularly, as we know reports will grow as the number of users does over time anyway.

Breaking the users' experience because your tooling is insufficient is a bad look.

I would absolutely support keeping Meta away.

The known downsides far out weigh the potential benefits.

Open + Captcha

Get yourself an app, or a better web client. You don't need to use the client the instance provided for your convenience.

https://joinmastodon.org/apps

Thanks for posting this. Please update to include the gist link from @christianselig@mastodon.social too.

https://gist.github.com/christianselig/449b0bd374167ff7335fab2b823120ef