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  • I think the issue is that many Lemmy users will think more carefully about what they comment than what they up/downvote, as a comment appears connected to your username but a vote doesn’t. You might decide against commenting on something you disagree with because you don’t want to get in a fight, instead just downvoting it, but if people then know if was you who downvoted can still pick the fight.

    Basically the issue is you’re revealing a lot more information than you might initially have realised if you’d have known votes were public all along. Maybe a disgruntled person uses that to dox you, or maybe a corpo feeds all that information into their fancy computer system to work out who you might be, who knows.












  • smeg@feddit.uktoComic Strips@lemmy.worldBeing an adult
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    11 days ago

    When it comes to the serious stuff like plumbing/electrics/gas where I could destroy my house and myself if I fuck up then I’m more inclined to pay for a professional, but I’m always up for trying simple fixes myself.

    Speaking to tradies I think they both love and hate people trying it themselves; they loathe trying to pick apart someone’s half-arsed bodge-job but are very happy to be paid to fix someone’s cock up!