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Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi there, I’m looking to get into self-hosting for privacy reasons and I wanted to ask y’all: how inadvisable is it to utilize an ISP-owned router/modem? I feel like they’re able to track everything I do online with their more than likely integrated spyware.

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[–] 19 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I've often wondered about down votes as well. It's not the points, as I care nothing about that. However, if you're going to down vote something, have the balls to explain why. Maybe the down voter knows something that we all can learn from. It just seems like a common courtesy to do so.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It might just be an error. It's not too hard to hit one by mistake when scrolling on a touch screen device.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    However, if you're going to down vote something, have the balls to explain why.

    This is why downvoting is fundamentally flawed. It could be "I don't like it" all the way up to "I know for a fact that's wrong," but nobody else will ever know the rationale.

    I don't even see downvotes on my instance, and I never want to, because it just raises questions and confusion.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I've always liked the way slashdot handles comment rating. It's a bit complicated, so maybe that's why it's not adopted elsewhere, but it gives a much more fine grained options instead of just up/downvote.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    because it just raises questions and confusion.

    This. I think, waay back in the day, down voting was a way to filter bad information. Whenever I see a down vote on something I've said, I'm always left wondering if I gave erroneous information, was I out in the weeds smokin' crack? I'm always down for being educated.

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