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Definitely a honeypot to measure who would read past the first line, not sure that he's actually kidding.
shows hand here: https://xcancel.com/lopp/status/2025576336182362157
Of the commandment that one shall not criticize the holiest downzapper on SN.
More than half of yesterday’s total downzaps were directed at stackers with attached wallets who disagreed with the reasoning behind the downzaps.
P.S. your workaround proved me wrong because it spoke for itself.
The workaround mainly addresses one downside to the situation.
Creating a systematic, money-moderated approach to protect the community from (self-proclaimed) wealthy individuals using their economic power to manipulate the community is no easy task. We've all seen @k00b spend weeks thinking aloud in the saloon and comments of release posts, trying to find a solution.
The problem is that the system, being both open-loop and money-moderated, gives an advantage to those with external finances over those who don’t have as much. And let's be honest, that latter group is likely the majority, especially given the former "earn with posts" narrative.
This is why we want to show that even on SN, money isn’t everything. If we stand together and support each other, we can counteract a lot of the disruptions through simple actions. After all, we do live in a novel age of non-discriminatory empowerment now.
I'm really sorry if, in some way, we gave you the impression that we can't listen.
Not at all, this isn't meant to be criticism of the SN team. (I should probably have been more specific about that.)
But maybe it's not about impressions, maybe it's about someone's principles.
The intent was to point to the community taking some responsibility rather than always deferring everything to the developers. We’re all part of this ecosystem, and there are ways we can actively help mitigate risks instead of waiting for fixes.
change comes from speaking up, not from workarounds.
I agree that speaking up matters. At the same time, temporary workarounds can give developers the space to implement proper, long-term solutions. The goal isn’t to shift pressure onto the team, but to support them while they work on it. Community is more than just code, it’s also about people looking out for each other. Sometimes the best immediate response isn’t technical, but human.
It's very useful for when you feel light imposter syndrome and be more certain about your own capabilities.
Got myself a second opinion
Out of the above list, 17 downzaps are likely trolling. The events were profiled.
I have it slated for testing but I won't run it in production because I don't run extensions outside of the built-in brave "shields" thing. Still it's something I would like to have.
Yesterday we first-hand witnessed that resisting censorship on SN is much like resisting censorship in Russia: it paints an enormous target on one's back. Our own syndication post was the top downzapped post. If we'd be resisting a nation state though, our disobedience would have landed us in the gulag awaiting poisoning with polonium, Novichok and/or epibatidine, but luckily we are finding ourselves in a relative benign position where we just have to resist little authoritarians with barely any real power, not big ones.
Additionally, because we despise "devs do something" and we strongly believe that the power of SN is the community, not the money, we act from a baseline conviction that the community can just do things. And we intend to just do things. Of course, we've foreseen a counter reaction and already have developed a series of mitigations to potential attempts to disrupt our resistance.
The first trick from our resistance handbook is a simple one: we will only post reports of downzapped posts, so if you're interested to learn about content that you may have missed, of any nature, you can subscribe to our posts, as subscriptions always deliver. If you don't want to see our posts because you dislike things that were downzapped, you can simply mute us. To do either, go to our profile, tap the ... next to our nym and use the "subscribe to posts" or "mute CindyKate" option as you desire.
Enjoy your day.
Human intolerance can sometimes best be countered with human tolerance.
Thank you!
We are pleased that built-in and ongoing sorting mechanisms are rendering our snapshot-based post mechanism obsolete. Snapshots are a suboptimal solution, and while we had developed additional contingency measures, we are satisfied to retain these in reserve. Should a future discoverability crisis arise, these resources remain available for our deployment. We hope this proves unnecessary indefinitely, though.
Serving as a
downzap rodto ~meta was a satisfying side effect. We hope that these daily posts did not cause undue inconvenience or frustration to the team.