This has been commonly spread around Reddit for a while, and is completely made up.

The full original quote was “The customer is always right.” This was pushed by some retailers as a way of setting the standard of how to treat customers.

Like most oversimplified phrases, it can’t be used as a blanket policy, because customers take advantage of it. “in matters of taste” is a nice way to try to correct the phrase in response, but it was never the “original” and it does no favors to revise history to cover up the blunder.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around this. If I understand correctly, it functionally shouldn’t matter which instance you use, because the experience is supposed to be the same across them all?

Does it matter that I’m on world? Is there a reason I might prefer a different instance? Something I’m missing?

I believe that post began the joke, the lemmy shitpost community just ran with the bean memes after that.

I appreciate the illustration (and even warning) here. I predict things like this will just lead to more people having throwaway accounts. Now instead of just having throwaway accounts for posting shameful stories, you’ll also find people with their “commenting” accounts separate from their “voting” accounts.

The more I see kbin users calling people out for downvoting them, the faster I expect the votes to just become gamed instead of natural. Anything that’s used to draw attention to the way people vote will make this worse.

We’re in the early stages, but as soon as we start seeing communities that ban users based on their voting records, people will just find other ways to obscure things, which will make it even harder for instance admins to address massive misuse of the voting system.

I think the biggest concern is getting all participating instances to agree on how to handle the issue.

We’ll start to see more fragmentation of the Fediverse as different instance owners have different views on what should be done. But many of the measures to fight this will only work if all participating instances do the same, whether actively, or by using a new version of the federation standard. Some instances may think the way is to be more transparent, while others may think the way is to obscure the votes more. Now you’ll have the “transparent” fediverse and the “obscure” fediverse with fundamental disagreements with each other on the way things work.

It’s interesting times ahead. Personally, I don’t think federation is the simple answer to all our social media woes like some folks around seem to think. There’s a lot that needs to be addressed, which will be uncovered as more companies like Meta try to get in on it.

If your shower doesn’t include every one of these positions, are you even washing yourself?

I guarantee it won’t be long before communities begin using this information.

Remember on Reddit how many subs would prematurely ban any accounts that participated in subs they disliked? That was entirely driven by the users, not the platform. Imagine if they had your voting information too.

I predict we’ll start seeing throwaway accounts for voting, to disassociate your voting records from your posting persona.

Yeah I was thinking “what do you mean unprepared?” If you had Lunchables, that WAS being prepared!

Headquaters

I get the impression that is just Bing’s way of handling conflicts. I noticed if I correct it, ChatGPT will usually apologize and agree with what I say, while Bing will say it doesn’t want to talk about it anymore and make you start a new conversation