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An interactive tragedy.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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    The event was a success; there will be more like it in Ilford and around the country. Britain has become a multi-party system and there is an appetite for a party (or perhaps just candidates) that talks about peace, Palestine and poverty. The launch of Sultana’s new party has been messy and the left beyond Labour is fragmented, with some elements filtering into the Greens and some likely preferring the more decentralised independent model.

    This seems unfair to Sultana, her party announcement focused a lot on inequality (two child cap, winter fuel payment, PIP). I get the left spends a lot of time talking about Gaza (justifiably, because genocide), but I don’t think that necessarily means a left election campaign will focus this much on foreign policy.

    Zack Polanski’s Green party leadership bid is probably close to what a left campaign would (or at least should) look like.











  • I imagine the low engagement is because everyone who uses it knows it’s a bot and treats it as read-only

    I don’t think this is the case, others like !Mirror@50501.chat and @free@rss.ponder.cat get engagement, and the latter doesn’t even post memes which most lemmings engage with with little regard to community or user.

    Is it actually causing any problems?

    See my other comment, but nothing technical.

    It’s pretty trivial to ignore/block it if you don’t want to see it. If it’s actually increasing our server bill or anything like that then it’s not worth keeping, but if it’s not causing any harm then why bother defederating?

    It is easy to block, but new lemmings aren’t going to know all the platform features.

    I’m not adamant about defeding though, if people are using it I’ll keep it around. There are other solutions to the issue of new users going to All, seeing a bunch of Reddit reports with no engagement and thinking the platform is dead. Like having new accounts block the bot by default.







  • It’s amazing that to gage if Corbyn supports Sultana’s party we have to read between the lines of an interview with ITV from a few days ago instead of Corbyn just stating he’s with the initiative.

    Either the reports are true, or this is a major comms failure on the yet-to-be-named party’s part. Having the initial talk of your new party being if the supposed co-founder is involved isn’t a good look. Corbyn has a lot to be rightfully mad at the media for, but this is one is on him.












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    BBC statement on Glastonbury 2025

    "Millions of people tuned in to enjoy Glastonbury this weekend across the BBC’s output but one performance within our livestreams included comments that were deeply offensive. The BBC respects freedom of expression but stands firmly against incitement to violence. The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves. We welcome Glastonbury’s condemnation of the performance.

    "The performance was part of a live stream of the West Holts stage on BBC iPlayer. The judgment on Saturday to issue a warning on screen while streaming online was in line with our editorial guidelines. In addition, we took the decision not to make the performance available on demand. The team were dealing with a live situation but with hindsight we should have pulled the stream during the performance. We regret this did not happen.

    “In light of this weekend, we will look at our guidance around live events so we can be sure teams are clear on when it is acceptable to keep output on air.”

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