Someday you could be part of a daily talk show panel and parrot whatever confirmation bias your audience "needs."

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

This tracks perfectly with his generation. They're always around to claim credit in the event of Success, but when there's Failure it's always "Who is responsible?"

You could hire a resume writer if you're on LinkedIn.

Don't worry, just create an account. They'll find you with offers and guarantees to manipulate ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) on your behalf.

Don't forget the OPM hack in 2014, also assuming you're in the USA and received a military/government background check.

Understood and agreed.

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

BTW, It's not just Reddit. ;)

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:

UPDATE Posts
SET Updoots = 1000000    -- or SET Updoots = 0
WHERE PostId = 1;

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

I have an issue to share and it's not major, but some of the links are wrong depending on the UI.

For instance, in the default UI, the link for your Privacy Policy page is This, but it should be This Instead (Note the trailing hyphen on the bad/dead link).

Of course, that's not a major concern and it is very minor, but misplaced legal docs could be problematic long-term.

Good bot.

Teach me your ways. I want to learn.

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.