The number of short IPv6 addresses is smaller than the number of IPv4 addresses, so that's defeating the entire purpose of IPv6. Sooner or later you have to start using the long addresses.
And can be identified/tracked individually by outside entities. In IPv4, a website sees both my device and my kid's device as the same IP. In IPv6 they're different so this just provides more ways for them to track you.
I mean that Microsoft and Gmail took over the email protocol and right now if you stand up your own email server with a new domain/IP you basically have zero chance to get your mail delivered anywhere. They've positioned themselves as "higher" authority because of the sheer number of users they control and can now control the entire email system.
Same thing could happen with instances if we elevate lemme.world or any other instance to be "more legitimate" so their user votes count higher.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I definitely agree accounts created for the sole purpose of upvoting stuff/bot farms are bad. I just don't know if there's an effective way to fight it as they're getting pretty elaborate these days and it's hard to distinguish them from real accounts.
Pretty soon we'll be at the point where no one will trust anything on the Internet.
That defeats the purpose of decentralization and creates a dangerous precedent. The entire point of Lemmy is that every instance is equally valid and legitimate. If certain instances are elevated above others, we're on our way to do what Gmail and Microsoft did to email.
Why am I being a dick, I was genuinely curious. What do you mean "vote manipulation"? Like making a post with one account and creating another one to upvote the post?
But that's kinda the point of all posts. You post because you want people to see something and you want your post to be popular so it can be seen by the largest amount of people.
It would be great if that was the way it worked, unfortunately right now it's granular to the instance level, not user level. Not sure it's even possible to get it down to user level unless every user runs their own instance which is unlikely to ever happen. The data has to live somewhere, so we need instances or instance -equivalent to host the data. Maybe if they get it down to where hosting your own instance is super easy one-click ordeal. Then each user would be truly in control.
No.
Just have backups of your data. If i get infected, I wipe and nuke from orbit anyway, I don't trust that antivirus will remove everything.