Emperor
@Emperor@feddit.uk
- Comment on Don't call it a Substack 13 hours ago:
They’re just the latest Big Tech landgrabs until they reach a sufficient size they can begin enshittification.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 day ago:
40% think they are overweight or obese, 64% actually are.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 day ago:
When asked about their own body image, four in 10 told the survey they think they are overweight or obese.
Government stats from January 12th, 2023:
26% of adults in England are obese and a further 38% are overweight. This briefing covers statistics on obesity among adults and children in the UK
- Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHSwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 25 comments
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- Comment on [Mastodon reply link] Even the ActivityPub author "supports" anyone who makes a game the implements that protocol 4 days ago:
That’s the trick.
You could, for example, have a bot running a text-based RPG in a Mastodon thread, where you get to see others in your group take their turns, then you have yours.
- Comment on Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky 4 days ago:
I think the best of both worlds would be if I could make an account on both and have one account essentially repost anything from the main account, unless I’m replying to someone specifically where it wouldn’t make sense to reply on both accounts.
That’s what I’d want from a bridge - something to connect an account at each end. If/when Bluesky suffers enshittification, it would mean that folks on Bluesky could just switch the direction of the bridge and start posting in the Fediverse. No sunk cost leaving you hanging on, no high barrier to moving.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 4 days ago:
I presume they would maintain separate user account databases (without some concerted hacking).
I’m hoping at some point that different services will allow shared logins (with APIs it should be relatively straightforward) or a separate ID service (ActivityPods?).
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 4 days ago:
There are a few British Mastodon instances:
If we were to add another service, I’d want something a bit more interesting.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 4 days ago:
I’ve sorted a Guardian feed: !theguardian@rss.ponder.cat
- Comment on Unhealthy food is costing UK more than £260bn per year, report says 4 days ago:
Peanuts are legumes, although they are usually classed as nuts. A worthy winner either way.
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- Comment on Unhealthy food is costing UK more than £260bn per year, report says 4 days ago:
Coconut has a lot of saturated fat, so I’d say unhealthy. Deep-fried Snickers on the other hand…
- Comment on Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is jailed for terrorism offences 4 days ago:
A counter-argument is that they are punishing mental illness:
In mitigation the court heard Ruane had mental health issues from childhood trauma and had alcohol dependence.
The defendant claimed he had no memory of sending the messages as he was “blind drunk” every day at the time.
Like the Prevent scheme where a “staggeringly high” number people on it are autistic.
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- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?
I liked the community that had built up and wanted to help that continue.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 6 days ago:
Because people will choose convenience over their vey own survival.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
Now there’s an argument to be had. I ave tried Mastodon and Firefish and found the latter to be far superior, feature-wise. I think Iceshrimp will be the *key fork that will finally the big breakout hit, especially with the Iceshrimp.net rewrite.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
The best thing for on-boarding are topic-specific instances, it makes picking one much easier.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
Mastodon isn’t even the best micro-blogging service on the Fediverse.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 6 days ago:
What would be the incentive for people to do that?
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 1 week ago:
I was considering getting their RSS feed dragged through to Lemmy via:
- Comment on NHS-branded baby formula could prevent parents paying too much, watchdog says 1 week ago:
Apparently, one issue is not being able to price promotions on baby formula which has reduced competition and kept prices high.
I don’t know if it is being done but in medication specific formulations have codes so you can compare products (it highlights Nurofen’s rebranding and varying the price on identical painkillers) and that could work here. The news reports say parents go for the big name brands because they want guaranteed quality and something like that code system would help reassure parents that a cheaper brand is just as good.
- Comment on Sign the petition calling on PM Keir Starmer to be bold when dealing with Donald Trump 1 week ago:
The skin of your fingertip.
- Comment on Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby considered resigning over 'appalling' barrister abuse scandal 1 week ago:
Somehow, Welby returned.
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 1 week ago:
Skynet
Ruh roh
- Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby considered resigning over 'appalling' barrister abuse scandalnews.sky.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says 1 week ago:
He said the “bat shed” was his favourite example of the problems caused. The Bechstein’s bat was “generally pretty available in most of northern Europe, western Europe”, he said. “But nevertheless, under the Wildlife Act, 1981, it’s deemed to be a protected species in the UK, this bat, even though there’s lots of them.”
The bat is rare in the UK and deemed to be “vulnerable” in Europe, according to the IUCN conservation network’s red list.
He sounds like a bit of a prick trying to muddy the waters in an investigation into why the project went so over-budget under his watch.
