If you learn how to jiggle the keys to power, and jiggle them masterfully in a way previously unseen in history, essentially being the ultimate and most eponymously mythical of benevolent dictators…
Yea, it would. Until you die.
Then we’re back to the same paradigm. Because it’s the whole system itself that is a hodgepodge of both human nature and direct perversions thereof, and not inherently its outputs.
(no one’s going to even see those except me and who I’m talking to).
Untrue. Even one on one’s in a public medium, are public. Lurkers have every right to opine on takes as they see fit, reply or platform-granted reaction tools both. Whether they catch the comments fresh or later when you consider it a “dead thread”.
I personally do it all the time, upvote or downvote.
There’s only so many hours in a day and Fediverse content isn’t so plentiful that it makes sense to mark discussions that are still near the top of a comms feed as “dead” to me.
That’s before we even get into how easy it is to accidentally hit the buttons in a lot of Lemmy client apps.
Easily defended against: Upon finishing your transaction, simply press every single button on the machine in quick succession, with roughly equal firmness.