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But I approved the pending sign up requests.
Hi, I'm currently not really able to monitor the instance. Maybe better migrate to a more reliable instance. Sorry :( (I'm just looking in occasionally)
What’s the worst Harry Potter theory you’ve ever heard?
Why doesn't have Hufflepuff more characters?
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - 1. A Day of very Low Propability
"Every inch of wall space is covered by a bookcase. Each bookcase has six shelves, going almost to the ceiling. Some bookshelves are stacked to the brim with hardback books: science, maths, history, and everything else. Other shelves have two layers of paperback science fiction, with the back layer of books propped up on old tissue boxes or lengths of wood, so that you can see the back layer of books above the books in front. And it still isn't enough. Books are overflowing onto the tables and the sofas and making little heaps under the windows.
This is the living-room of the house occupied by the eminent Professor Michael Verres-Evans, and his wife, Mrs. Petunia Evans-Verres, and their adopted son, Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres.
There is a letter lying on the living-room table, and an unstamped envelope of yellowish parchment, addressed to Mr. H. Potter in emerald-green ink."
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If only somebody were in charge of these things ...
I guess mastodon.social? Its not only the Brazilians, its also BTS army, and the japanese community. They also went to Bluesky instead of Fedi. Maybe the fediverse is too euro-centric?
Maybe at some point swifties could join the Fediverse?
"Bluesky has managed to grow significantly bigger than the fediverse at this point, with around 5 times as many monthly active users, as well as onboarding the Brazilian community. It seems to me that it is worth reflecting on why that is, and how the fediverse can better show itself as a good, ethical social network that people would like to join."
Yeah, why is that? On the one hand, LGBTQ is strong in the Fediverse, and tech nerds of course. But other than that ... the Fediverse never had this kind of cultural momentum.
Thats sad. I'm sure mozilla could have pushed the Fediverse
"You know sometimes I think we sort too soon"-Dumbledore.
'Arry, you saved my sister's life. I do not forget.
Find the connection
See if you can find the connection between the characters ;)
this pun comes with a featherated twist
Harry Potter in a nutshell
I read it only in parts. Apparantly, there actually is a dollar-galleons-exchange rate carried out by Gringots.
"Consider first the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate (i.e. the exchange rate between the muggles’ money and the wizards’ money), which is not mentioned explicitly in the original 7-volume Harry Potter books, but we know from the books that the Gringotts handles such exchanges (Rowling, 1999a, p. 50). Based on information from three sources, we estimate that the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate is about $7.30/Galleon."
The best of these sources is Rowling herself I think: "Third, in an interview on March 12, 2001, when asked by Rebecca Boswell, ‘What is the approximate value of a galleon?’ J.K. Rowling’s reply was ‘About five pounds, though the exchange rate varies!’ (Source: https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2007/02/04/wizard-money/, accessed June 6, 2022.) We conclude therefore that the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate is about $7.30/Galleon."
Arthur Wesley after all also bought a muggle car and bewitched it.
No no, there is actually a whole economic going on and someone analyzed it: https://academic.oup.com/ooec/article/doi/10.1093/ooec/odac004/6646895
And its not so different and similary flawed than that in our world ;)
Idk. I mean, we all basically know how an engine works, how a coffee machine works, but these little magic devices that are supposed to work with these "microchips". You can easily take apart an engine, but if you take apart a smartphone, you never find the bits ...
Why hasn’t wizarding tech been privatized and sold to Muggles yet? Or has it already … (alternate Wiz-Tech-Timeline)
cross-posted from: https://diagonlemmy.social/post/6753
Alternative Harry Potter narrative: since the global wizarding wars, many attempts were made by companies to sell their tech to Muggles. It was tolerated by the institute of Magic as long as it was not advertised as such. Above is an example of a banned, confiscated attempt to show the magic more openly. However, over time it turned out that Muggles weren’t even interested in the magic behind it, they wanted their devices easy to use and understand; and everyone else eventually joined the wizards and witches.
Eventually, all regulations to sell magical devices were erased and since the late 80s with the introduction of the world wide web, the rise of wiz-tech has only increased in pace: next came the introduction of the iPhone by young wizard Steve Jobs, introducing wiz-tech to the broad public and lately, even magic itself can be channelled through so-called AI agents and the Floo-Network begins to open up to Muggles as
Now that's unfair, using digital artifacts in an empowering way could be very Solarpunk
Beats me ... I can only vaguely point in the direction of ... magic?
Is it a bird, is it superman? No, its Solarpunk Hermine!
Wer für den Müll empfänglich ist, interessiert sich nicht dafür, dass das vielleicht hinterher argumentativ auseinandergenommen wird.
Denke ich schon
Alleine die Tatsache, dass die Nazis da eingeladen werden, sendet schon ein klares Signal: “Das ist eine ganz normale Partei”.
Das ist halt das Dilemma, wenn eine faschistische Partei viele Wählerstimmen bekommt. Auf der einen Seite kann man sie nicht ignorieren, auf der anderen Seite gibt man ihr eine Bühne. Aber die Bühne hat sie in den sozialen Medien so oder so.
Hat man jahrelang so gemacht und hat nicht funktioniert. Außerdem verbreitet sich Propaganda am besten unwidersprochen. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass irgendeine dieser Talk-Sendungen jemanden von der AfD überzeugt hat.
Ok, now I get it. It's an interesting concept. However, I think usability is a trade-off here and that means limited scalability. The average user wants to join a server and that's it. I continue to place my bet on the federated concept ;)
Nicht mit ihnen reden lässt sie aber auch nicht einfach so verschwinden. Besser gegenhalten und sie sich selbst entlarven lassen. Wer's dann immer noch nicht kapiert ist selbst schuld.
Then if its filtered - why is it better against cencorship?
Ok, but can they also delete it once its through? Either all incoming messages are checked beforehand and are filtered by the admin, which is even worse of the bad censorship in the Fediverse nostr fans keep crying about, or its passed through and the user has to deal with toxic content. I'm not sure how that should work. The moderation has to happen somewhere, it sounds like nostr is heaving that onto the user.
Usually, if people say "its the best from both worlds" actually means "there is a tradeoff, but I like this adjustment of the tradeoff more". If you want less "censorship", which is ok, you use nostr, but have to live with a worse moderation situation.