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Improvement for the vote quota implementation in c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

This doesn't track. On one side you say this will directly affect incredibly small number of people but this incredibly small number of people also flood posts with their one vote? Wouldn't that be incredibly small number of votes per post?

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    • It's been fun, but I don't have another migration left in me. in c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
    [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Ok, so in the announcement post they talk about mostly technical reasons for this. But from the linked post it does in fact sound like the aim is to throttle most active members because they have too much influence?

    This is what rubbed me the wrong way and I just couldn't figure out why. We all have one upvote to give, some people just give it way more of them - so in comes the great equalizer in the form of the daily quota.

    I hope you pardon my exagerated metaphor, but this is like limiting free speech for journalists, because they excercise the right of free speech way more than others.

    It's "just" votes so I'm hesitant to call this censorship but... this does feel like a first step. Will there be daily post quotas too because some people post more than others?

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    [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    I don't like the many layers that winter requires but at this point I could bite down a bullet on that. But I just don't handle the short days well.

    I'm sure in a year or two that would be preferable as well.

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    The suffering of a pizza lover in c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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    How does this scam work? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    This is definitely a scam, though I'm also confused by your dad traveling, usually that's other way around (and that's where "complications" happen where money is "needed").

    Try to tell your dad what you expect coming - there will be complications and she will ask for money. Likely only a little at first, but the number will be rising.

    Also, since they are impersonating (or acting like) a public figure, try searchig for the name online. Your dad is likely not the first (or last) that fell for this particular scam. Other people might be sharing stories with this person. There might be messages shared that people exchanged with the scammer - these will likely match those sent to your dad (the scammers usually have multiple people going at the same time). Use that - if your dad reads on the internet the exact message he got from his love interest, that hopefuly will ring some alarm bells. Though in the age of AI this might not be the case anymore, it's worth a shot.

    Talk with your dad, ask how things are going and try to be vigilant for money being asked for. Try to poke holes in the stories but be gentle so your dad doesn't shut you out - he will likely not be that willing to listen. One way or another he will get hurt - you can just minimize the financial damage - or limit it to emotional only.

    Good luck.

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    Idea: consolidate the GW lemmy communities (piefed.social)
     

    cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/guildwars2/p/2134144/idea-consolidate-the-gw-lemmy-communities

    So - with GW3 on the horizon and the announcement of support for all 3 games I started to wonder about the lemmy communities.

    With lemmy and piefed being not as big as the other place, I came to terms with the fact that highly specified communities don't really make sense as those are a niche within a niche and so get limited activity.

    That said, I was always glad to see GW2 having a relatively active comm and I'm a little concerned about what GW3 might do with it. Also, since it's GW2 specific it's not a great place to hype up GW3. And while I see GW3 community exists, there is all in all 2 subs on there.

    So I'd like to propose having a central, Guild Wars Franchise community where all 3 games would be discussed. This would make thr community more active, while also giving people idea what's happening in the other games.

    Thoughts?

    PS: I thought I'd also directly tag @meldrik@lemmy.wtf here, as a moderator of both GW1 and GW2 comms and also sole poster in GW3 comm (which makes me think you made it as well?) to also ask you directly what you think about the idea. I don't have any experience with this so maybe you will tell my why it's not a good idea?

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    Idea: consolidate the GW lemmy communities (piefed.social)
     

    cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/guildwars2/p/2134144/idea-consolidate-the-gw-lemmy-communities

    So - with GW3 on the horizon and the announcement of support for all 3 games I started to wonder about the lemmy communities.

    With lemmy and piefed being not as big as the other place, I came to terms with the fact that highly specified communities don't really make sense as those are a niche within a niche and so get limited activity.

    That said, I was always glad to see GW2 having a relatively active comm and I'm a little concerned about what GW3 might do with it. Also, since it's GW2 specific it's not a great place to hype up GW3. And while I see GW3 community exists, there is all in all 2 subs on there.

    So I'd like to propose having a central, Guild Wars Franchise community where all 3 games would be discussed. This would make thr community more active, while also giving people idea what's happening in the other games.

    Thoughts?

    PS: I thought I'd also directly tag @meldrik@lemmy.wtf here, as a moderator of both GW1 and GW2 comms and also sole poster in GW3 comm (which makes me think you made it as well?) to also ask you directly what you think about the idea. I don't have any experience with this so maybe you will tell my why it's not a good idea?

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    Idea: consolidate the GW lemmy communities (piefed.social)
     

    So - with GW3 on the horizon and the announcement of support for all 3 games I started to wonder about the lemmy communities.

    With lemmy and piefed being not as big as the other place, I came to terms with the fact that highly specified communities don't really make sense as those are a niche within a niche and so get limited activity.

    That said, I was always glad to see GW2 having a relatively active comm and I'm a little concerned about what GW3 might do with it. Also, since it's GW2 specific it's not a great place to hype up GW3. And while I see GW3 community exists, there is all in all 2 subs on there.

    So I'd like to propose having a central, Guild Wars Franchise community where all 3 games would be discussed. This would make thr community more active, while also giving people idea what's happening in the other games.

    Thoughts?

    PS: I thought I'd also directly tag @meldrik@lemmy.wtf here, as a moderator of both GW1 and GW2 comms and also sole poster in GW3 comm (which makes me think you made it as well?) to also ask you directly what you think about the idea. I don't have any experience with this so maybe you will tell my why it's not a good idea?

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    Missing PoI categories? (piefed.social)
     

    So I had to go to a notary office recently and wanted to find some near me on CoMaps... but it was very ineffective because it only found those that had "notary" in the name. There was no such category to be found.

    And yet, OSMand has "notary office" category, and many more that don't show up in CoMaps (and I'm talking searching for categories, not just the list). Does CoMaps only feature some categories, but not all?

    I tried also looking at Archeological site as another example and while there were PoIs categorized as such but can't select the category to see all PoIs from this category on map.

    Am I missing something?

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    Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures in Early Medieval Pastoral Literature (www.medievalists.net)
     

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.dk/post/15686288

    A good source of folklore and surviving pagan practices are church documents that describes practices evident in pre-christian Roman and Greek sources, archeological evidence, and early modern folkloric sources.

    This book is the longest description I have read of this type of source. It discusses to what extend these texts can be read as actual evidence of existing practices, or just per verbatim repetitions of existing church texts. It never really concludes anything but mostly agrees that these really are evidence of existing practices.

    It is split in multiple sections for different types of practices.

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    Old Saxon Paganism: Indiculus Superstitionum et Paganiarum (iwobrand.wordpress.com)
     

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.dk/post/15202576

    Article detailing an 8th century description of Saxon paganism. Sadly, the full text is lost, but we have the index of the text and that is enough to enlighten us about the existence of many practices described in other sources, and many that existed until recently or even still exist.

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