Good idea, worth checking.

In that case, won't the server have access to my credentials?

Sometimes they do, but then they will take much more time to give you a response.

Sometimes, they simply don't have n alternative, like my city's local service for reporting broken streetlights.

I'm running lineage os on a 7-year-old phone, and I can confirm.

I see now. You made some good points. Indeed, the targeted userbase doesn't care about how the system works, so they may have a conflict in there,

Thank you for explaining this concept. I still don't see how it can be considered planned obsolescence, though. It looks more like a matter of optimizing the output and doing a tradeoff for more performance.

I see planned obsolescence as artificially limiting the longevity or repairability of a product, without any benefit at all, but with the intention of making it less durable. A good example could be locked smartphones without updates.

But perhaps, the definition of planned obsolescence is broader than i think.

but to actually provide a compromise leading to an overall better product.

Could you elaborate a bit more on that?

Such definitions are becoming more and more complicated. I think we should standardize a name for the family of systems we use, or it will become uglier and uglier.

Recently, I had to write an academic work in the area, and an entire section was dedicated to explaining this controversy and defining what kind of system I was talking about, so that the work is reproducible.

I like the idea too, but I'd prefer to wait and see what the official devs think about it, and if adding privacy measures is part of the roadmap. Lemmy is still too new and things are still unstable.

I can see where you came from. We can't expect to be free from powerful corporations without some sort of tradeoff. However, in this particular case, I prefer my upvotes to be private, so I don't feel like I have any incentive to hit that button again. I will only read and comment from now on, because my comments and posts are what I expect to be public.

Well, the good thing is that we have the option to refrain from voting. But this information isn't easily available to new users.

It's not the same. GPT-based bots add much more to the situation.

Current bots are easily identifiable, and can be just banned when spotted, but gpt bots can interact in a way that makes is more difficult to spot. They can be programmed to present different personalities and tastes, commenting on several places, and even chit-chatting here and there. Then, they will do their propaganda, considering the contexts, arguing and replying to counterarguments.

It's a much more complex structure, and much harder to identify. Today, gpt produces text following some patterns, but that's something that can be improved.

Why weren't you my parent?