kersploosh

In general, yes. Especially at the national level, politicians are not reading and writing bills. They delegate that work to their staff, and/or take prepared drafts from various interest groups. The politician's job is to be the face of the operation and garner support for the bill or cause at hand. They also spend a ton of their time raising money for their next election campaign, or the campaigns of their friends and party members.

In a similar vein, political parties are essentially marketing organizations. The party's job is to get its members elected. Parties will change their platforms over time if they think it will give them an electoral advantage.

Sorry, but this community has a "No politics or political figures" rule. The video would be a better fit in [email protected].

My pair is slim, and they're about as slim as I could comfortably fit. Looking at Gustin's fit guide, I can't imagine squeezing into the skinny fit. The straight fit looks interesting and I might come back to it someday.

I picked up a pair of 501 shrink-to-fit and I'm loving them so far. The Gustin jeans definitely have nicer fabric, but I'm liking the higher rise and the pockets are deep enough to comfortably fit my phone when I sit.

You are correct that there were a bunch of defederations early on. It has been a rare occurrence over the past year or so.

In October 2024 we defederated from some Misskey instances that were being used for spamming: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26714129

In December 2023 we defederated from threads following a vote.

Yes, sorry. My reply wandered off track a bit. In my defense, it was late and I should have been sleeping instead of spending time on Lemmy.

In short, all I meant to say is that I generally agree with your proposal, and we do have a history of announcing and discussing defederations in advance in some cases, but I wouldn't make it a blanket rule.

Of course that's purely my personal opinion. If the rest of the community feels differently (including the other admins) then I'm all ears.

Transparency is good. But I'm not sure announcing or voting on each defederation is necessary.

In cases where there is concern about another instance's culture or general user behavior then an announcement or even a vote may be appropriate. We have done this in the past for exploding-heads (link) and threads (link).

However, most of the instances on our block list either (a.) allow pedo/loli/CSAM type content, or (b.) are unmoderated/abandoned instances where spammers set up shop. In those cases we just hit the block button and move on with our day. We have sometimes made announcements (link), but not consistently. In the case of a CSAM-friendly instance I would not want to give them free advertising by making a public announcement.

If you are ever curious why a particular instance was defederated, look at our Fediseer profile below. We try to keep the Censures list up to date with our instance block list, and note the rationale for blocking each instance. And if you see something odd in that list please let us know. At least once an instance was unblocked after a user brought it to our attention (link).

https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/sh.itjust.works

Replying to your test

It looks like mod @[email protected] is somewhat active. At least within the last two weeks. Let's give them a chance to respond before I assign new mods.

The other mod, @accountusedtocreatecommunitypleaseignore, deleted their account. I removed them as a mod.

If you're feeling adventurous, try Kérsplôøsh.

That fits. Wikipedia says the artist was from Gdańsk.

I expect a substantial portion of that cow pasture/range land is dry grasslands and shrub steppe out west. It's rough terrain and not good for much else. A lot of it doesn't even have cows on it most of the time.