The point of making of open to everyone was so they'd have other traffic to hide their own secret communications amongst, right?
smeg
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I think the problem is that people use "algorithm" to mean "curated social media feed", whereas it actually refers to a kick-ass prog-metal band
I think the hard part would be keeping it up to date as instances change
It's not a repost if it's in a different community
Just pick up a cheap, secondhand mainframe
Feels to me that being able to link what people like/dislike to their comments and username is much more dangerous than just being able to downvote all their comments.
And I'd hope that in this new suggestion an admin would still be able to ban the user even if they only knew the anonymous/voter ID, though that's probably an interesting question for OP.
I guess that can happen now anyway as the bad actor can just create their own instance with as many fake accounts as they like. Ultimately it's still on other instance admins to block the dodgy ones either way.
whilst doing nothing to protect them
Well it also takes away a tool that harassers can use for their harassing of individuals, right? This does highlight the often-requested issue of Lemmy needs better/more moderation tools though.
Single developer prioritised his life over supporting an increasingly complex project, I think
Oh wow, I guess both of the HP-UX users will be gutted to read this!
Maybe that bug report was the motivation for the collaboration! Or maybe the level 1 support aren't aware of unannounced business decisions.