Is there a website-making social club somewhere in the north of England where people can just hang out and update their website?

@llamasoft_ox Breakfast of the gods.

@hacks4pancakes nice week to visit, the weather is half decent. Got time for a coffee while you're in this city?

@ai6yr @W6KME @EugestShirley
Adventist World Radio appears to have (multiple?) yearly competitions to design pins, with multiple winners, and collecting them seems to be the expectation. So they've likely had hundreds of designs over the years. They're picky about the logo presentation when it is used, but that seems to be optional.

I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.

That makes for a pretty bad experience.

This is Buttons the knit hippo (not crochet). She was knit on circular needles with no sewing outside of attaching her eyes. I used a rainbow self striping sock yarn. She is made of merino wool and is so soft and so warm to hold
#hippo #knitting #knit #plush #plushie #yarn #fiberart

Microslop makes more reasons for UK universities to abandon their slopware, but of course they won't.

https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/10/microsoft-teaches-schools-that-free-email-was-just-a-phase/5308371

yes, of course, but it’s not a business model. Which means decisions aren’t driven by profit. The issue isn’t about money, it’s how/why it flows

Wikipedia is proof you are wrong, it is possible to run large-scale services with no profit

A Golden Wake: Roaring '20s Edition announced, a complete re-imagining of the 2014 adventure https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/a-golden-wake-roaring-20s-edition-announced-a-complete-re-imagining-of-the-2014-adventure/

#AGoldenWakeRoaring20sEdition #Adventure #PointClick #Steam #IndieGame

SDM (stadium dance music)

While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 15% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

Join in and turn blue!
In the lead-up to the 2026 UN Water Conference, we are inviting institutions and organisations to join the Blue Community. Together, we defend water and sanitation as human rights against pollution, privatisation and profiteering.
https://blue-community.net/turn-blue/

they ovvereached with thier AI-moderation/filtering bans, so now theres even less content. AI isnt finding reddit useful to scrape anymore, because they are getting Ai content instead.

We know… we were there.

We know…

Just amused by the juxtaposition, obviously they weren’t contradicting you (or replying to you). lol.

I’m easily amused. :)

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

Reddit got bad long before they restricted API access. That's what was the final drop for many people, but it wasn't the beginning at all.

I agree that growing would be a benefit for Lemmy though. While I wouldn't dismiss the dangers of a growing community entirely, we can just defederate from or block problematic parts in theory. So I wouldn't say we're in quite the same danger as centralized platforms.

FSFE November Newsletter is here!!!🚀

🔹The update of European procurement rules has begun, and we already shared our position with our representatives: digital sovereignty requires "#FreeSoftware
🔸#YH4F 2026 has just shown what becomes possible when young developers are empowered with #SoftwareFreedom
🔹See you this weekend at @sfscon

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202611.en.html

gona move my personal instance to a vps, if i die, avenge my death if i dont come back