ShadowRunner

JFC, the answer to your question is literally the first sentence of the article. It would have taken you less time to read it then to post your question.

For the last month or two, my AV blocks their site because it detected a ScrInject.B trojan.

And yes, it's the correct site (monkrus.ws).

Not that enriched if you're trying to insult people with "OK, Boomer".

That's an excellent point and very true.

Who actually gives a fuck?

A lot of people do.

What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager's snarky "who cares" attitude doesn't mean that this isn't important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.

Understandtable, but if that's all it is, then there are already aggregate search websites.

Searching through that app still requires a plugin, and all the plugins I saw just seemed to be related to specific sites anyway - so you might as well just search on those sites.

Or is there a plugin that stands out over the rest?

You and everyone else in the fediverse needs to stop with this fanaticism that anything centralized is automatically a bad thing.

I gave up completely on Google accounts after they kept flagging make-believe security issues and made it near impossible to verify that it's yours.

Even if you have a secondary email configured (and this would be what it's for) - but oh, no, that's still not good enough for them.

Then they pulled the utter bullshit of requiring your phone number "so they can make sure it's you" - but since there was never a phone number associated with the account, this is clearly nothing more than a data grab so they can associate real identities with their accounts.

That was the last straw for me, and I decided that their service was utter garbage, completely unreliable, and not worth using anymore.

I think it's more accurate to say that up/downvoting is used as like/dislike, with disagreement being a special case of dislike.

But like it or not, you will never get rid of that association because it's the simplest and most direct interpretation of an up/down vote. It's just psychology.

Also keep in mind that your feelings on what up/downvoting should mean is really more appropriate at the comment level, whereas, having them represent like/dislike is notably more appropriate at the thread/post level - as the idea for a sub/magazine is that content users like should be promoted and content they don't want to see should be demoted.

Unfortunately, that makes it even more difficult because now you would want the arrows to mean different things depending on the area they are used.

The end result is that you will never break the link between voting and people interpreting it as like/dislike. It's the appropriate interpretation for threads/posts, and it then becomes the simplest interpretation for comments as well.

What you can do is have a separate control to indicate whether a comment is appropriate or not. However, you would still run the risk of people weaponizing it against comments they particularly dislike, so I'm not sure whether it would be worth the effort to implement.

That's a very excellent point and shows the necessary trade-off to make that work.