UndercoverUlrikHD

The amount of bots, spam and other problematic content would be overwhelming for admins to moderate, most instances would just defederate on day 0.

That's what PieFed changes though. You can still track how someone votes

You need a way to identify which profile is tied to the vote profile so that you can deal with the root account.

Admins need a way to track votes to detect abuse/bots though. And anyone can be an admin if they set up an instance, so votes will still be public.

Don't get high on your own supply, as the saying goes.

programming.dev by default hides NSFW communities + politics, so you won't see them in c/all unless you subscribe to them. I'm sure there are other instances that does something similar as well.

I did try that years ago, ran into performance issues and other bugs, and it wasn't worth messing around with when dual booting is so simple. Might reconsider in the future if MS keeps messing up though.

Cost me a few hours and ended up just disabling secure boot in the end. Wish I didn't need MS for some programs.

That ring's primary domain is domination, with other extra powers given depending on person. In the hands of someone like Gandalf or Galadriel the war would most likely have turned before the ring inevitably betrays them, or they themselves becomes as bad as Sauron.

While I do agree with what you said, none of that really detracts from Boromir's character. I personally think Faramir would be the only other Man capable of resisting the ring's temptation in that fellowship.

Vote manipulation

Hmm, I can understand how someone can be concerned about that, but personally I find it too theoretical and unlikely to matter.

Any company wanting to harvest data from the fediverse would likely just create their own instance to easily copy the databases from every major instance, private voting wouldn't help against that. I would also say that your comment would be a thousand times more damning than upvoting every comment/post critical of Musk.

If you only lurk, you will stay anonymous as long as you use an anonymous username. If you comment, you are way more likely to "leak" your opinion through comments anyway.

But those are just my thoughts, I might be way off base and lack the full range of perspectives.

To me it feels like comments are what you can actually stand behind publicly, while votes also show what you think privately. And not everyone is willing to stand behind all of their opinions publicly, often for fear of backlash or harassment.

I guess I'm just of the opinion that if someone has that concern, they should rethink how they use social platforms and maybe look into creating a more anonymous profile that suits their need better.

But now we are just down to differing opinions, which is all fine to have, I won't claim my thoughts are the best one.

I have felt the want to have a more anonymous profile from time to time since being an admin means I need to avoid controversial topics, but it isn't any more difficult than simply not engaging with it.