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A well considered and thoughtful piece about "western democracy" in general, with a relevance to UK politics.

 

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A well considered and thoughtful piece I think.

 

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For those that don't know about it, Awesome Games Done Quick is an annual charity event with speedrunners showcasing impressive ways to finish games extremely quickly. It's 24/7 for a week, so always enjoyable to have in the background while working from home to dip in and out of.

Currently there's a very enjoyable run of Super Mario Sunshine.

I've also enjoyed the awful block and I've heard the dog doing the speedrun was an impressive feat to behold (albeit not that exciting for the whole 30 minutes)

 

Banger

 

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Taskmaster returns soon for Series 17!

Preparing to fight tooth and nail, impress the almighty Taskmaster, and bag the highest points are: comedian, writer, and presenter Joanne McNally (My Therapist Ghosted Me), Edinburgh Comedy Award winning comedian and radio presenter John Robins (BBC Radio 5 Live), award winning actor and comedian Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso), BAFTA winning comedian, writer, and actor Sophie Willan (Alma’s Not Normal), award winning writer, actor and comedian Steve Pemberton (Inside No. 9).

Who will emerge victorious, raise the trophy above their head, and call themselves a Taskmaster champion?

 

Private Eye has been reporting on the Post Office scandal for over a decade: Richard Brooks joins the team to discuss how we got here and where things go next. Plus, updates on the Mirror Hacking debacle and the massive profits being made on Teesside.

[–] NotACube 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] NotACube 1 points 1 year ago

Checkout lemmit.online

[–] NotACube 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

BNC connector, such a satisfying screw and click into place mechanism.

[–] NotACube 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can imagine a hacky way to anonymise voting would be to have a pool of fake user accounts on your instance. When someone on the instance clicks to up/downvote, a random fake account is used to make the vote instead. This would then kind of work like a vote tumbler and keep the voting anonymous but still work with activity pub.

Maybe activitypub is actually a bit crap and we should all be using something better like nostr though?

[–] NotACube 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The two potential roads seem somewhat equivalent to me:

  1. Threads federation is blocked by the main Mastodon instances. A huge user base of non-techies starts using Threads and it dwarfs the rest of the fediverse acting as a singular centralised platform. The fediverse continues to be a techie/ideological anti-corporate community as it is now with a relatively small community in the grand scheme of things.
  2. Threads federates with some of the big Mastodon instances. Fediverse instances outside of Threads get a large amount of growth as people see the extra content available in this larger federated environment. Growth of Threads still outpaces all other fediverse instances combined. Meta then carries out some form of EEE tactics and some large chunk of the userbase of the non-Threads instances switch to Threads. The techie/anti-corporate community continues to use fediverse instances without any interaction with Threads.

Both scenarios end in a large centralised platform run by Meta and a small community that want to avoid a corporate platform.

I think it's also wise to separate the effect of large corporate instances in the fediverse between effects on Mastodon (where users follow users) vs Lemmy/Kbin (where users follow communities). In the case of Mastodon, the effects of EEE tactics will be strong due to a more powerful network effect because it's important that a particular person is on the same platform as you (i.e. this is a similar situation to XMPP and gchat). In contrast, you just need some people to participate in a Lemmy/Kbin community to make it worth joining, but it doesn't matter exactly who, meaning that membership can be small and sparse but the community still has a meaningful existence (i.e like niche forums).

[–] NotACube 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another great bastion of reddit content has been felled.

Another reason for redditors to leave and join Lemmy.

[–] NotACube 2 points 1 year ago

Aha, searching for a specific post URL is the key!

I had tried searching for the community with in the search bar and got nothing before as well as trying to just go straight to https://feddit.uk/c/natural_process_art@mander.xyz but I was getting 404: couldnt_find_community.

Thanks for explaining this!

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