Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming? 1 day ago:
Thanks Baku! I’s originally aiming for one event post a week, i think i’ll stick to the more personally interesting posts. Thwt’ll still be quite a few, but other people will have to do things like AFL and such :) If they want it.
I’d thought things like weekend markets arpund the State could go in a weekly thread like you suggest
- Comment on What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming? 1 day ago:
Yeah, i think i needed yours and Lodion’s responses to remind me to keep it to events i actually find interesting. Cheers.
Sorry folks someone else is gona have to post about the Western Derby ;)
- Comment on What Constitutes contravention of Rule 4, no ads/spamming? 1 day ago:
Ok, cheers for the guidance. I’ll carry on with the idea, but might tone it down a bit.
- Submitted 2 days ago to meta@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Gina Rinehart screwing with our allies politics. 6 days ago:
I found that such a shallow use of a very unique sort of political leverage.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 10 comments
- Comment on 'Devastated' Syria's new regime wants help, but should Australia loosen its stance? 1 week ago:
Morally they have to be given a chance, not for them, but for the millions who may now have a chance for a more peaceful life.
Australia’s relatively normal practice waiting for the US to decide and following along can be dropped with the new administration.
Theres no evidence that this practice would be appreciated by the incoming administration. In fact its probably more likely to be sneered at by them. Better to formulate policy in line with what is best for Australia’s interests now, that being a ‘stable and freer world’.
- Comment on Australians love cheap books. Here's why that's a problem 1 week ago:
Seems like a fairly reasonable idea. A bit Listian, which is in line with the way the economic/political world is turning now. Mild industry protections, like this seems, could be very useful for Australia.
- Comment on A couple of community requests 1 week ago:
Yeah, you definitely seem to be having the experience i’ve been having. I think for new communities, and current ones, it’d be ideal to get a few more users/mods committed to supporting those communities.
As they say, many hands make light work. Also diversity of content is pretty hard to do by one person.
- Comment on A couple of community requests 1 week ago:
The idea of a general Aus transport community would be fun. It would need one or two people to put their hands up to really drive that community though. I’ve found most of the time these specialty communitys are failing because theres no one delivering a baseline of posts.
I’d like to, but I’m a little busy with the two main communities i’m involved with and the third i’d like to post more into is RTFA, but that community is probably going to be slow moving by its nature, as it entails a fair amount of reading before social actions are taken.
I tried to accommodate for WA as a whole with the one community in the beginning. I’d not be keen to separate out country WA from the metro, theres so many connections between country and city, i’d rather emphasise those where i can, instead of delineating an already over emphasised and arbitrary social/cultural boundary.
An idea for a community could be an Australian Business News community, it could replace ausfinance or even a rename of that community. It makes the possible topics a little broader because you could pile industry specific news like mining, agri, or health industry news into that.
Alternatively your idea of a c/bush could roll agri industry news into that.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 1 week ago:
I took a little time to respond because i wanted some time to be thoughtful about this subject, sorry for that.
I understand why thats the stance. At the end of day your the one that keeps AZ running and the one on the hook for problems. That means you need to have final say over your platform. I get it.
I suppose i’m trying to gauge what everybody, including you, on AZ thinks in regards what we’re doing.
I’ve taken the fediverse koolaid pretty hard, so i suppose you could say i have an excited bias. I see the Social Web as a possible beginning for a genuine set of local social media alternatives to large unnaccountable providers. I’m interested in being part of the decentralised online world that the social web offers.
AZ is obvs an exemplar of this, so i’m happy as a pig in mud. Let me know if theres any support you need ever, i’m always willing to help where i can.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 2 weeks ago:
Nah, you’re right, this isn’t the biggest problem facing the site. I’m just always trying to think of ways we could strengthen the community.
- Comment on Annual General Thread 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely laughed out loud. Fair enough.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 17 comments
- Comment on Georgia’s pro-west president says she remains the ‘only legitimate president’ as new leader sworn in 3 weeks ago:
The Rest is Politics(supportingcast.fm) latest episode is a live interview with Salome Zourabichvili, the President of Georgia. Its a great explainer for lay people like me, and a call to action for European leaders and those with levers of power they may be able to pull.
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 5 weeks ago:
Thats actually really interesting to know you have a contingency there. The second option sounds a little like what beehaw must have done.
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 5 weeks ago:
But then we also get people like yourself who are always awesome to hear from! :) So swings and roundabouts.
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 5 weeks ago:
Everythings cool over a White Russian, or two.
- Comment on Users from Other Instances 5 weeks ago:
Na, the users i saw were all stating their opinions and they were essentially fine, no rules were broken in my eyes.
It just struck me last night that the way they delivered those opinions was pretty toxic.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to meta@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 1 month ago:
Theres no line for the Liberals to win a young constituency of voters on this. They voted in line with Labor and waved it through Parliament.
Part of me knows this is a populist strategy, but there is the chance that the Parliament has been privy to information the public isn’t.
Three things make me wonder if theres some urgent-ish security concern raised in regards radicalisation of young people driving this,
- Both Partys generally line up on National Security matters.
- They cut debate, and oversight. Maybe to save time, maybe because they are allowed to specify the real reason.
- The Big Social media companies haven’t wet the bed and begun a campaign against it.
If this is related to security, then theres probably other clues. It’d be interesting to see if theres a difference in different country’s Social Medias reactions, say tiktok’s reaction as opposed youtube’s? There could be a clue there. We’re not far off the Aus election, but we have also just witnessed a fairly hot election in the USA, maybe we should be looking back at that, instead of forward.
Or i’m wrong and its just a populist election move that the Liberals weren’t going to let Labor capture the narrative on.
- Comment on Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January 1 month ago:
Um, AFP are letting this slip by hey? These people recruiting for a foreign military in broad daylight and the AFP haven’t lifted a finger?
With friends like these…
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 1 month ago:
Watch out jlai.lu the aussies are comin!
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 1 month ago:
doing authentication or just gathering their ID data
So i did read last week when i’s going through the explanatory notes that sites would have to explicitly state and gain permission for the specific use of the data proposed.
I didn’t have time to read into that bit much, but it seemed like it might be setting a higher bar than the ‘check and forget’ boxes around now. So i’m cautiously hopeful this part of the amendment could be quietly good.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 1 month ago:
I’s talking about products in general, not new v old media. I actually had Jack Welch of GE in my mind when i wrote the comment yesterday.
That doctorow was a longer read than i’s expecting, clicked on a lot of links as well. This is why its taken soblong for me to reply :p I really liked the part about ‘heating’.
The heating part made me think about how youtube rarely showed me videos from channels i’d liked previously, i had to go looking for them, while the recommended videos showed so much weird crap.
I still think its no different to the ‘ever lasting search for the latest eFficiEnCeeeeee saving’ every MBA learns by rote.
But i take your point, User Attention is what these companies are selling. Like good little MBA’s they are doing everything they can to exploit that value from the user attention assets they have, and are singularly failing to build any new assets of any value.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 1 month ago:
I, and at least one other person here sent submissions in specifically mentioning the fediverse.
Mine wasn’t a very technical submission, i tried to focus on the value and potential destruction of that value if safeguards aren’t allowed for nascent social media.
So at least there is a record of it. My worry is all the Muskivites submissions will drown out ones like mine.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 1 month ago:
Certainly is better. But i don’t think it needs a ‘technology industry’ specific term.
Old terms like market monopolisation, or corruption of the public sphere.
Or something like those are better, because nothing the tech platforms have done is new, their tactics aren’t different from any other company seeking to dominate their respective product market. The key difference being the speed at which their product travels around the world.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 1 month ago:
Pretty impregnable net the legislative writers have cast there.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 1 month ago:
Meh, never liked the term.
I never felt it captured the seriousness of the undermining of the public’s access to reliable information, by the ownership of these public sphere’s being captured by profit maximising entities.
The temptation to skew algorithms to profit maximisation instead of best information delivery has proven too great, its why a fundamental shift away from the walled garden concept is required. In my view.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 1 month ago:
Further to this, how do you police that on something like the fediverse? Is @Aussie.zone going to shut down because the onus of checking IDs too much for a small social media provider?
I’m worried about this. I see no protections other than the minister’s discretion for small social media being liable for civil penalties of $9million. Thats the kind of money that freezes the social media market in place, allowing only the very largest to be involved.
This is of course if the fediverse admins are unable to implement reasonable steps for age verification.
I’m not technical, so i’ll be interested to know peoples thoughts on the implementation, and maintenance of age verification?