Oh that's bad. Good luck getting rid of them.
I personally find downvotes useful because there are a lot of low quality comments and content. Downvotes help me (and others) to avoid seeing them. Thus not wasting time with uninteresting posts or comments. But you aren't supposed to downvote everything that someone says.
It sounds like a weirdly specific thing for a bot to do.
It could be a case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon:
Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias referring to the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.The illusion is a result of increased awareness of a phrase, idea, or object – for example, hearing a song more often or seeing red cars everywhere.
what do you mean? I haven't seen one myself yet. It's just a common expression.
I don't think that comment is trolling, just a bit low effort post. But that's nothing rare in Lemmy/Reddit.
It was a stupid decision to attend a party created by the creators of a stupidly overpriced asset.
why'd this get downvotes
Recommending Medium and Blogger in a privacy community is terrible advice. It's disappointing that this is actually getting upvoted.
Edit: The other two comments provide actual private recommendations. This comment would be fine outside a privacy community.
what a surprise, yet another search engine related post where there's someone making promotion for Kagi in the comments.
security through obscurity is a bad practice.
it's better to be transparent and let everyone analyze your design. the more eyes on it, the better. even the proprietary and obscured Intel CPUs have had security vulnerabilities in the past.
It's just getting used to it. You can add the Collins (or any other dictionary search to Firefox) and it's as easy as selecting the correct search engine and writing the word in the search box.
there was an app for Wiktionary on fdroid. But I don't like Wiktionary's definitions as much as Collins'.
immutable OSs are killing the desktop OS, keeping the user restricted.
yeah, phone number and centralization makes it no good. XMPP it is.
I just use the Collins dictionary which is the best one IMO through Tor. There's no private (good) dictionary.
Edit: Also, installing an app for everything is not great for privacy either. They have a greater access to your device than a web. And for something I can perform in a web search, that's my preferred method.
have you tried in a different Wayland compositor?
By the way, I think it's very cool that you're writing your own engine. UE, Unity and even Godot are quite bloated.