Also, you seem to be confused about what a red herring is.

Do enlighten me.

Everyone can be self centered at the same time. Not sure why you think that wouldn’t be possible.

I guess you’re right.

It hard to see why you expect that the “Admins” would be able to prevent anything they don’t prefer so casually.

Well, think harder. They’re admins, not peasants.

It would be nice if the software allowed for many more things but it is limited, development is slow, and prioritizes what they get funding to work on.

That’s a red-herring.

If you look at the issues list, you’ll see that there are many desired changes, so the current release is not how the developers intend it to function.

But then, this is a good idea, and I’ll do this.

If I were an admin a lemmy instance, I would not consider it fair game to downvote a post on a community that you’re not subscribed to.

But then, there would be admins who would be okay with it. As long as the platform allows it, it’s fair game. Unless admins use a workaround, like banning the users who do this - but they’re not doing this either, are they?

The only one complaining directly and strongly is you.

And that’s a problem how? This is a discussion board after all.

Telling us we shouldn’t be complaining.

And you can either take it or leave it. I’m okay with either.

Voting for personal curation in an all feed is contrary to the shared nature of posts.

But where’s the evidence that there is “voting for personal curation” happening? Have you been DM’d by people saying “Stop posting this content to my All feed”?

The truth of the matter is, it’s an allowed action.

That’s like servers complaining about patrons going to a restaurant 10 minutes before closing time. They say “such inconsiderate people! Now we have to stay until they’re done!” When in reality, it’s not the patrons’ fault. It’s management’s fault. Personally, if I was a restaurant owner that closes at 10pm, I’d post a note saying “last time to serve walk-ins: 9:15pm. Patrons must leave by 10:15pm, no exceptions” out of respect for my employees.

Same deal. Don’t complain to people doing a perfectly valid action regardless of intention. Complain to the admins or Lemmy’s devs.

Is it self-centered if a lot of people do it, though? Is voting “a self-centered” action, or a community one?

But that’s besides the point.

My point is that it doesn’t matter why they do it. The platform allows it, so it’s fair game. If it wasn’t, then admins should have an option to disable voting from people who are (1) browsing All and (2) not subscribed.

I’m sorry, but if people browse All, and are allowed to downvote what’s in there, how is that their fault? It’s an allowed use case of the Lemmy platform.

It’s like telling people not to use the chainsaw in Quake “because they’re too lazy to use other weapons.”

I understand all that. After all, Andrew is asking for the power to become an admin.

But given your reply, it seems like Andrew is asking for that power from the get-go which, of course, is a no go.

Whoops! Thanks. Corrected.

it’s highest

its* hightest highest

Why are you assuming so much about Andrew?

What are these workarounds? And why are they workarounds and not standard procedures?

This has to be some sort of policy being enabled. I have seen that window, but there are ways to bypass it - though in hindsight, they are not as evident. For example, right-click then choose “Open.”

that made it’s own files untouchable

that made its* own files untouchable

Yes, but on Linux, if I am root, I am God. I do whatever the fuck I want with my machine, for good, evil or stupidity. That’s the poster’s point. It seems like Windows doesn’t allow you to do this, or at least not easily. So I guess people who want to have absolute control over their computer shouldn’t be using Windows, I guess.

lol!

Overused comment that has almost nothing to do with the point.

Car making without the tracking bullshit!

its* creator.

that just hurls meteor filled bugs randomly

I think you meant to say “bugs filled meteors”?

No, come to think of it, you’re right. I was thinking of communities that ban people in droves, but they still have a lot of members.

But the keyword in your comment is “enough.” So, yup, again in theory, if they ban 99% of the whole Fediverse, they won’t be the biggest community in it.

Thanks for the history lesson. I didn’t really know lemmy.ml was the first Lemmy instance.