Very interesting, thanks!

The Gathering was really the spark that make the dance music scene take off in NZ. By around 2000 there were events happening all over the country and there was less need to trek to the middle of nowhere for a festival. The initial enthusiasm and idealism that energised the early days started to fade so money was needed then suddenly it’s a much harder game.

Part 2 is available now: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018902908/crown-vs-cow-part-two-how-agriculture-and-government-fell-out-and-the-climate-lost

God, this stuff is complex!

Pretty terrible how at the end it is revealed that the govt and industry had completely different ideas about the goal of the partnership, all along.

National wouldn’t have done this. Luxon is a evangelical.

This isn’t the end of reddit’s enshittification process. They’re just getting started.

Both.

As soon as kbin gets collapsing threads (it’s nearly there!), I’ll probably go exclusively kbin.

I no longer care if the blackouts change reddit or not. Viva la fediverse!

Misleading headline.

Maximum penalties are only used for the worst possible cases. As far as “fraud” goes, this seems super tame.

Sweet as!

Yeah 0.1% would be within some sort of margin of error, surely.

Try this https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy

One of the big weaknesses of Mastodon is it does a poor job of showing replies to posts, if you’re on a small server. A lot of replies don’t get federated, so you won’t see them. It’s rubbish. I spent weeks trying other software until I found one that proactively goes to the original server and retrieves replies on the fly, when you view the thread. It is called ‘Akkoma’ and it is fantastic.

https://mycrowd.ca/ is the Akkoma instance that I settled on.

Another major limitation of Mastodon is all replies are shown in a single long list, unlike lemmy. For this reason I quite like Friendica. Friendica has a UI that is reminiscent of Facebook. https://venera.social/ is a good instance. However now that Lemmy/Kbin is blowing up I feel less need for it.

Only to agitate for the indefinite blackout https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/

Agreed.

This doesn’t need to be hard - there are plenty of boilerplate “code of conduct” documents for online communities which can be copied or used as a starting point. e.g. https://mycrowd.ca/about

This is clearer: https://mycrowd.ca/about

You are giving that impression, yes.

Don’t forget to buy thermal paste!

She’ll be right, mate.

We cannot have a good-faith discussion with nazis (or tankies), that’s a losing proposition from the outset. We do not need to have a discussion about why the N word is a beyond the pale. We do not need to have a discussion about why genocide denial is wrong. Doing so just gives those ideas a platform.

The only response to those people that saves moderation energy for more productive activities is the ban hammer. Cut it off at the source.

True, Google reviews can be gamed easily enough.