We needed an inquiry to realize 54 million dollars is too much for an app system some college kid could make for a few pills of adderal and a pizza over a weekend?
My favorite part of the process was when the CBSA told the inquiry they weren’t going to open the books.
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Yeah, when I went to school I heard rumors that up to a third of the incoming visas were questionable at best, but they took them anyways because 30k a semester is easy funding.
The way federation works is that everything is replicated across all federated servers. If an admin team does not want to have to moderate specific kinds of content or users who are deemed detrimental (but not necessarily illegal) they have the ability and right to defederate.
Also, I’ve blocked servers but it doesn’t block users. Defederation does though.
Basically it just says stuff like “Are you tired of high COL? Come move to the middle of nowhere where the COL is low!”
Mostly it’s targeted at younger Millennials who simply cannot afford homes in the GTA, generally citing better affordability out west.
The Alberta campaign is the same, except it also totes high job growth across the province.
I have family who have moved out West into a house that would be locally priced at over a million dollars but due to being out in Sask it was about half as much as that. I’m very tempted to move out to the prairies myself since my job is entirely remote, and it’s truly just considerably more affordable out there.
Here’s a picture of the Alberta ads, I can’t find one for Manitoba right now for some reason: https://i.imgur.com/fF0c6nY.jpg
I’d love to see the same concept executed in Toronto.
The downtown core is actually pretty spectacular, and the only thing going on right now is companies trying to force people to RTO because of the massive costs of all those towers and other real estate.
I would rather get rid of the mix of sports betting and Move to Alberta/Manitoba ads on the GO train in favor of a campaign to move people into converted high rises. Maybe we can solve a teensy tiny bit of our affordability problems, but that is highly unlikely.
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I wish everything was a bit more standardized between kbin/mbin/Lemmy. It feels like we have these forks of the project that do different things because they emulate different behaviors of other sites, and reaching parity seems difficult without a lot of developer discussion.
I like a few things about kbin but for a while it was the instance causing the most spam on my feed because federated mod actions broke and spam cleaned up locally would not get cleaned on other instances. I saw Ernest back posting again so I guess development has resumed and some of those issues have been banged out.
But it doesn’t bootstrap conversation properly, because some OP on an entire other website is asking for help, and we’re talking to brick walls.
Lemmy is more helpful for Linux help than reddit is anyways, because on reddit they’ll tell you to fuck off and search, while on Lemmy I can still get hands-on support with a willing community.
That’s the problem with federation though, you have 20 servers with 20 communities of the same thing, and there’s not many people redirecting and curating, because everybody wants to be a powermod. When we had the reddit migration it started a chain reaction nightmare of creating an infinite number of dead, useless, redundant communities. I like to use sports as a good example. Fanaticus.social is designed to be the premiere sports instance, yet all the local instances, like .ca or midwest.social, also will have their requisite team pages.
I think it only serves to continue to keep reddit afloat. If our stuff does get crossposted, then we’re effectively just still using reddit. The point was to leave the platform because of the leadership, not kinda continue to half use it by proxy.
It’s a bandage that needs to be ripped off, not re-applied.
I don’t think there are any high quality discussions left to be had with the current suite of redditors.
E: I see you’re getting downvoted and that sucks - I for one appreciate our discussion.
Eliminate all bots.
Crossposts are useless because the communities are not interactive.
The strength of the Lemmy community in my opinion is the high quality of discussion, and there is no discussion to be had on reddit reposts when we are not having our content reposted onto reddit.
Don’t you know? Nobody reads articles, we just make judgements based on the title!
If they were properly curated, they didn’t. It’s not like an admin from any other instance can delete duplicate communities from other instances.
When I was in college I had heard upwards of a third of the visas they were accepting and processing were at the very least questionable, but they accepted them anyways - a local student will pay maybe 5k a semester, while with international students it’s upwards of 30k. It’s a no-brainer that schools want internationals coming in.
Yeah there’s not much that the Fediverse adds to the equation that a forum wouldn’t handle. It’s actually worse in a lot of ways, because on a forum you’re not going to have seven different subforums dedicated to the same topics, like the federation does by having 200 servers each with generally similar and redundant subcommunities. Sports is a big example I use, because it’s the most evident.
One of the most popular moderation moves on this platform has been to lock these excess communities and forward them to a central one that is actually active.
Yeah but there’s literally nothing the Fediverse does better than a PHBB forum.
I actually hate the interconnected yet fragmented environment here - there’s absurd amounts of redundancies in communities, resulting in dead spaces; you don’t need 20 different federated servers all with their variations of the same communities, for example sports teams - you have fanaticus.social which is literally specifically for sports, but then every single local instance like midwest.social or lemmy.ca will have duplicate or even triplicate communities. This does nothing but make the whole platform seem big and empty and bereft of users or interactions.
Going well passed Texas of the North to Florida of the North.
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Why not just use SoulSeek?