Swarming

Strange, may be the implementation? I've tried using both Chrome and Brave

I'd be happy to use up some of my Midjourney AI credits to generate something!

EDIT: I'm still having trouble uploading any images anywhere on this website so I'm uploading them to Imgur and I'll paste a link to the album here. I'm on mobile data (the bloody ISP is giving us the run around about fixing our connection) so it might take a few minutes but I like some of the ones I've managed to generate.

EDIT2: Here's the imgur album. Any of them more or less catch people's eye? Obviously I can refine/improve from a starting point.

https://imgur.com/a/p1FeMAz

That was fast! Layout seems to have changed a little bit, but in mostly subtle ways.

But now I can't seem to upload an icon to my /c/books community, I get a JSON error. Should I try deleting site data from my browser and refreshing?

Specific error message:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', " <h"... is not valid JSON

Similar errors when I attempt to update the sidebar.

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I think I agree. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of going too far, too fast in defederating from servers which have people whose views some users here find objectionable. There are some cases where it's fairly clear-cut, and I'd feel comfortable. Outright fascists and MAGA servers. Bot-farms. Ones designed to disseminate disinformation and fake news.

If their users are interacting with us in ways which are hostile, disruptive, etc. then we should defederate, obviously. Though that will only go so far given open registrations.

But this server is not, as far as I'm aware, intended to be of a specific political hue, nor primarily about politics. So, I think we should be cautious and careful, partly because I've seen 'tankie' used to describe such a wide range of views, often with very little in common between them.

I lived in Edinburgh for about two years, and only recently moved back to England in September. I don't think /r/Scotland is remotely representative of the average Scot. I never once felt victimized on the basis of my being very English. Maybe a bit of light teasing about my accent from time to time, nothing more.

I think most of them are actually pretty 'soft' on Scottish independence. Many of them are basically fed up of England forcing Tory governments on them (and Brexit certainly didn't help either), and more or less just want out of Britain so they can crack on with becoming a decent social democratic country. Independence for most of them is more a means to an end, a risk worth taking if the alternative is more Tories, more austerity, Brexit disaster, etc.

But I think that's why Labour are currently on track to overtake the SNP in Scotland - because once a Labour government becomes a realistic possibility, many people are happy to give it another go rather than risk independence (currency, borders, etc.)

Any other notable changes in 0.18-rc6?

It's a really nice change of pace. Reddit can be such an unpleasant place outside of posts about cats or food or whatever. Silly stuff like that.

Scummy company. I don't really understand why the United States doesn't have a federal level basic right to unionization. Why should the company have any say in this whatsoever?

I like this article, but I wonder whether this "possibility of metamorphosis, of the self being able to embrace new forms, new identities and new personae that we can inhabit and discard, then move on" is perhaps not the mode of subjectivity precisely suited to what the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman called 'Liquid Modernity'?

This hyper-aestheticized, endlessly shifting market society, in which everything is purchaseable but almost immediately discarded. I assume one identity until I grow tired with it, at which point I acquire another.

It's possible he's either wrong (and subjectivity doesn't work like this), or right (it does work like this), but that this is more a feature of our contemporary capitalist societies than something 'deeper' and eternal.

What is the ideal resolution for a community banner so as not to unnecessarily 'weigh it down' with a super high-resolution image?