Viewing upvotes / downvotes will be in lemmy 1.0 : https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5616

There will also be the ability to view the vote totals you’ve given to a person: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5786

what information is provided to an entity about whom.

“Content” and “Context”

Why is only message text considered “information / content / context” here. Signal has your real name and address via phone numbers, and has every other real person you talked to, and when. Why is “message text” considered context, but social networking graphs aren’t?

All these definitions are highly subjective, and the above one clearly considers social networking graphs to not be “content”. Basically they’ve re-defined privacy in a way that excludes highly sensitive information like everyone you talk to, and when.

No one should be recommending signal over matrix and simplex. It’s probably more secure than whatsapp, but both have social network graphs of everyone you talked to, and when.

This thread shows the success of Signal’s PR campaigns, and how a shiny app can get people to overlook all the privacy concerns. They’re just as successful as Apple at getting people to think that a US-based corporation hosted on Amazon’s servers and subject to national security letters, whose privacy model is “just trust us with your phone number”, is in any way secure.

stores hashed phone numbers and first access / last access times and nothing else.

Even if this weren’t false (otherwise they wouldn’t be able to connect to your existing contacts), that’s a “just trust us” claim. You give them your phone number, you should assume they have it and not “trust them” to hash it like its a password.

And the client does store these things, but also lets users delete messages and contacts. Your message deletions can propagate as well.

Not that its that important, but its yet another just trust us claim.

Not only that, but self-hosting should be an option. It isn’t with signal, which is based and hosted in the US, on amazon servers, and subject to national security letters .

Everyone you talk to and when you talked to them, with their real identities via phone numbers. Because signal is hosted in the US and subject to national security letters, you should assume the worst.

I just tested this, and it’s not a bug, except for the decimals (open up an issue on lemmy-ui github about that).

It only shows the upvote percentage when there are downvotes. Otherwise, you can assume it’s 100%.

You can read the github comments on this question

Long story short: The overwhelming consensus is that ppl prefer their votes to be private, but to avoid targeted vote manipulation (which is pretty common now unfortunately), votes in lemmy are semi-private: only visible to admins and mods, but not to the majority of users.

It raises hackles any time someone unironically uses the term “authoritarian”, because its always used to demonize the non-white countries, and especially those that were successful in opposing the US imperialist project, which has killed more innocent people than any other empire in world history.

The PRC has not been in a war since its minor skirmish with Vietnam back in the 70s. It’s also lifted more people out of poverty in the last few decades than any other country in history. By contrast the US has killed hundreds of millions of people, attacked our coup’d nearly every country, and its people are increasingly living in poverty and homelessness.

Secondly yes, the PRC is socialist, read this or any of the other texts ppl below have made.

This thread is a testament to the years of china bad slop that white supremacist liberals have been eating.

Major props to all the patient comrades below trying to educate these stubborn klansmen.

Libretorrent for android. Just click sequential download, wait a few seconds, then open the file.

qbittorrent or deluge can also do this for desktop.

Vegans can use fish, as long as they don’t bash