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      I pretty well hate the whole concept of capitalists building a profile about me to better manipulate me. None of this should be legal. Don’t wanna give me a loan without all this information? Good. Don’t give me a loan. Now get rid of my data. That shit is nobody’s business but mine. It’s almost certainly used for discrimination and mass manipulation as well. It’s the kind of thing one would use to knock down their political opposition.

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    WTF… When did employers start reporting our income into a national/international database for other employers to view? Is it even mentioned in our contracts with the employer?

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      Since doing so allowed them to see other data. Then they can use it for making offers that are as low as possible.

      Basically it raises their bargaining power. They know how much you make now and will use that to scale their offer.

      Capitalists will minimize costs. It is their job.

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    And of course freezing this data is possible, but you have to mail it in, along with proof of identity. 🙄

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    Consider what would happen if employees across the globe posted to an open database about their employer, position title, salary bonus and health care information. I’m sure we’d all be sued. How is this legal?

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    Nothing like seeing all 3 of the same posts by you in my feed 🥰

    /s

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      The biggest annoyance to me personally, with fediverse communities. Complete fragmentation.

      Not to say I want a centralised control, but something in the middle

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        It does make establishing a critical mass of comments to make a good discussion difficult. I’ve had it once or twice where I discovered a post in one community commented and didn’t get any replies, only to discover some other discussion on the same content happened elsewhere on the fediverse that I wasn’t subscribed to.

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          I heard someone describe it as discussing a topic in different bars. You’ll get a slightly different niche in each space. Has its pros and cons. But beats the centralization.

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        I have to wonder if there is a way for clients to glom together duplicate posts across your subscribed communities into one, and if you reply to a thread in that post it passes it back to the correct discussion.

        I mean, you’d still see repetitive stuff in the post’s comments from your point of view, but everything would be in one place from your perspective and it would be semi-transparent, at least for the communities you subscribe to.

        All the information is there, it should be doable…

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      This is what you’re supposed to do on the fediverse. Thank OP. Raise a bug with your frontend to add an option to dedupe your feed if it bothers you.