Did you end up eating more pizza than you would otherwise? Also I feel like everything in my apartment would smell like pizza which would get old.

Who else read this in burialgoods’ voice?

Haha, yeah I do it out of fear of restaurant workers and you all should too if you know what’s good for you! Like, they literally have time alone with the food you’re going to eat!

I always tip well, but in this case my love of loud alarms would win out

I’m not on Bluesky, what downsides are you seeing in their app?

I was picturing a graphical map with circles for the communities at different sizes for the amount of traffic. It could be based on proximity for how much overlap there was in user posts and comments, and also by category, color the circles by instance maybe too? Like make it waaay more visible and accessible than Reddit. Somebody must have the chops to make something like that here, right?

There was a Lemmy post about Telomir Pharmaceuticals a week or so ago, they’re developing a drug that’s supposed to regenerate telomeres and it was showing decent results in canine trials. So at least the telomere shortening issue in DNA aging has a possibility of being addressed in the medium-term if things continue to go well. https://www.benzinga.com/partner/biotech/24/09/40707135/telomir-pharmaceuticals-nasdaq-telo-featured-in-local-abc-exclusive-showing-positive-outcomes-of-

Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.

If votes became truly public, what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made? Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

I really hope a solution is found and if Lemmy goes the way of truly public votes, it would probably turn this into a nonparticipatory medium for me, I’d still read posts but not vote or comment.

Edit: also, most casual Lemmy users aren’t aware of public votes and would be upset that it already works this way, and only particularly invested or curious users are even reading this thread.

I think most users assume votes are private and most will have a similar reaction to learning about this unintuitive negative feature of anything built on ActivityPub, including Lemmy.

Baked in visibility of votes and blocking that only works one way makes Lemmy (and anything based on ActivityPub) less functional from an end user standpoint. Wish I knew a decent, somewhat popular alternative that implemented these features