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El juego parece muy divertido. Estoy feliz de ver que regresan más actividades al aire libre a las calles de Portland.
Awesome, I was hoping you would want to as you are a regular poster. :)
This whole thing feels like those work meetings where there was a huge effort to put together a piece of communication, but then at the final hour a group of bosses endlessly start wordsmithing every single sentence.
I wish our city councilors would do ... anything else.
I don't think housing can "solve" drug addiction. However, there are factors that have been shown to contribute to addiction from homelessness. Less stability, regular trauma, mental health, etc causes all of these things to interact and exasperate each other.
The frustrating part is that voters keep telling the city, county, and state to invest in all of these areas. Measure 110 was supposed to create more space to have drug addiction treated, and there was no follow through. Now, further existing infrastructure is closing with no replacement. Similarly with housing, voters overwhelmingly keep calling for housing solutions, but any progress turns into new vendor procurement, deals with developers that don't follow through, and half baked plans that don't materialize.
Also, I think it's important to remember that a lot of drug addiction happens amongst the housed. We just don't see it. But as our coworker who is struggling falls apart, loses their job, and times get tough the more likely they will be the one moving from pain pills at home to fentanyl in the streets.
I'm glad some of the electeds are at least acting like they are as frustrated as I am. I hope they actually do something about it. (thought the need for national reform on both housing and drug addiction also can't be ignored).
The admins finally responded after a few days, but by then I had already removed the other user as a mod (the method to do so is a bit hidden).
Currently there are two mods, myself and @absolutebeginner@lemmy.ml who created this community, but has since deleted all their posts and hasn't posted again in years. In order to remove a mod though you need to click into a post they made. With no posts, I can't remove absolutebeginner even if I wanted to.
Hi all, I wanted to let you know about an incident that happened a few days back. An individual requested to become a mod on c/Portland when they thought there was no moderators due to a federation issue. Then, an admin mistakenly made them a mod.
I reached out to the admins to let them know I was upset by such a mistake happening on their part. I also de-modded the individual, but tried to encourage them to make a post getting input from all of you about becoming a mod. I'm honestly not against them becoming a mod.
I think having more mods would actually help this place grow. If you've posted here at least a few times, and are interested in volunteering, nominate yourself below.
I doubt anyone will have any red flags to call out, but if you do contact me about it or post.
Thanks all. I hope you were able to stay cool these past few days.
I'm not a part of the demographic who would experience racism around this. So, I can't comment there.
I am a white hipster though. So, I usually call my window manager customizations "artisanally hand crafted".
Thank you for responding.
I removed BarterClub as a mod, but suggested they make a post asking the existing community for support in becoming a mod. If the existing users are OK with it, then I'm happy to add them back.
If possible, I would suggest a change to process where the admin verifies the community is abandoned before adding mods.
There's a fediverse ride on July 30th: https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-17449
Apparently mods can remove other mods. It's just hidden and only accessible if you click into a post the mod made.
I encourage you to make a post in the community asking if everyone would be alright with adding you as a mod. If there are no major objections then we can add you.
What are you talking about? I suggested you should talk to the community and if everyone is cool with it then we can make you a mod. The issue is that our autonomy was undermined due to the mistake, and it can be corrected by you demoding yourself and making a post asking the community if they are OK adding you as a mod.
Mods on Lemmy don't have permissions to remove other mods. You need to demod yourself, or an admin needs to remove you.
I think it would be totally reasonable to make a post and ask the active members there what they think about you becoming a mod. We've been having conversations there on what we want the community to be, and I've been trying to empower everyone to give input. So, suddenly seeing a new mod with no community input runs counter to that.
Also, regardless of the federation issue, it is concerning that the admins did not verify that the community was abandoned, when simply clicking on my account would have quickly shown it was not.
!portland@lemmy.ml [/c/portland@lemmy.ml] At this time, they have no mods. I use to moderate over on Reddit. But have moved here. I just made a new community on a different server that I moderate also.
** Update: I still haven't heard from any mod, but the user did get back to me though they weren't very receptive to the frustration. However, I did find out that you can remove others as mods but the option is hidden in having to click into one of their posts. So, this unique situation is resolved, but the appointing of a mod without checking if the current community is actually abandoned should still be addressed.**
A user posted on !community_requests claiming that a sub I'm a moderator of had no active mods despite the fact that I have actively been posting on there and holding a moderation discussion with the community this week. At the time of request the account was only a day old. Still, an admin proceeded to make them a mod in our community.
As far as I can tell, this was a mistake on both the user and admin's part.
Within an hour of the new mod appearing I responded to both the admin and the user politely asking them for answers about what happened. I also privately DMed the user on Matrix asking them to demod themselves and put a post up in the community petitioning to become a mod instead of just sidestepping the people who are already there.
It has now been nearly 8 hours and no admin has gotten back to me, and the user hasn't responded.
Even if this is a mistake, it gives me a lot of pause. The fact a one day old account could come and claim our community was abandoned, even though clearly it was not, and be given mod powers for hours upon hours after the mistake being reported is really scary.
Again, I think this was a mistake on both the admin and user's part, but there needs to be a better process to deal with this going forward. I'm really disappointed.___
For example, I posted this (as a mod) in c/Portland 5 days ago (3 days before BarterClub claimed it had "no mods"): https://lemmy.ml/post/1841804
Process question: As I am a mod and active on /c/Portland and was not checked in with, what process is being used to evaluate things like this? I would have been fine chatting with BarterClub, but we have been trying to have community discussions on how the place should be ran and what sort of content fits. Now suddenly there is a new mod and we weren't consulted!?
It would have been cool to be included in this. I am a mod over there, and I've been active including posting on the community in the past couple days.
To be clear: c/Portland was certainly not dead or abandoned and had many active posts and participation in posts and comments from myself as a mod.
There are a number of options. One for example is to have a weekly mega thread for news, and require it all gets posted there. Maybe with exceptions for major events, elections, etc.
Hi all,
I am noticing that a lot of what is being posted is the same outrage clickbait articles on crime and poverty that have overrun other Portland centric communities. These are absolutely important topics, and something I hope everyone is thinking about and involved with advocating for improved policy around. However, I do question the usefulness of a constant deluge of these types of articles.
When we go to a space like the local coffee shop, pub, or bookstore, a place where we immediately feel the "Portland vibes", we usually aren't met with a non-stop stream of poverty, drug, and crime news. If I we were, then we would probably leave (or at least I would). Similarly, I feel like our online space can be so much more than just the same daily rehash of divisive arguments that don't go anywhere.
This is especially true on our Lemmy community, where we are small and still developing a culture. There are not many other types of posts here yet, so the click-bait outrage headlines dominate. Personally, I would love to see more events, reviews of concerts, pictures, slice of life stories, and other things that make this feel like the "Portland vibes".
This isn't a moderation decision. It's more of an appeal. I haven't removed any links or banned anyone (other than some obvious malicious spam), and I don't plan to. I haven't even been down voting.
IDK ... what do you think about the future of this space and how we might build a community space that isn't just local doom scrolling?
This is great. I hope they add more harm reduction mechanisms for drug users. I would also like to see safe injection sites, safety testing, and even sanctioned sale of doses if it mean less deaths.
All of that depends on the state actually sending out funding as outlined in measure 110 though. Instead they seem to believe that treating people with a disease as criminals is more important than actually getting them the help they need. I hope this program helps counteract that.
Just because a deterrent isn't the "number one reason" doesn't mean that it's a bad deterrent. If this is helping some people that's great. It's not like someone is going to go pick this stuff up having never done the drug before, and even if that did happen then I'm pretty sure the clinic would be working to dissuade them from trying it.
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Sunday, July 30th @ 4PM, Shemanski Park
I never understood this logic.
I've been on Mastodon since 2016 and never really got into Twitter. I just don't understand why the "algorithm" matters. Who cares if people who don't follow you see your post? I want my followers to see my posts, and then favorites allow me to know that my followers liked what I posted. It's a nice dopamine boost and helps me feel closer to my community.
A lot of posts I make unboostable as well (followers only). "Promotion" doesn't really factor much into my use of Mastodon so much as being "social".
Weird, it always works for me. Here is an archive someone made of the full article: https://archive.ph/bpXJ9
pro tip: add "?outputType=amp" (without the quotes) to the end of any paywalled Oregonian article to get the goods.
Hi all. Welcome to the Lemmy c/Portland.
I've been on federated sites for awhile, and tried to mod this community awhile back, but adoption had been slow and I let it sit.
As such, it's available for us to make it whatever you want. Please make sure to follow the lemmy.ml rules.
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/code_of_conduct.html
- Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- No porn.
- No Ads / Spamming.
I also humbly request we attempt to not fall into some of the issues with r/Portland where it devolves into a crime blog/NextDoor-like space or become a platform for some of the local PACs to push their agendas (on any side).
Lets just be neighborly and if we disagree, then we'll work it out. If the place takes off, then we'll work together to codify more custom ground rules for discussion.
With that said, howdy neighbors.
I reserved a Deck day one within a minute and I think I might be in the initial launch (still no expected ship date listed though the payment processed and I got the confirmation email within a couple minutes). Whenever I get it, I'm hyped.
I'm not a typical user. I do enjoy handheld games, but I also am an Arch Linux user (btw), I deploy servers, I write code, blah blah blah. My current personal computer is an old T430, and I plan to use my deck as a daily driver as a desktop at home, a media center on the couch, handheld in bed, and a tablet on the go. To meet those use cases I plan to do a custom Arch install.
Is anyone else planning on doing something similar?
Some things I'm starting to plan out are:
- Some sort of custom lockscreen that can use the deck controls to unlock or an onscreen keyboard.
- E-reader mode
- Audio mode
- Kodi for media center and plex
- RetroArch for retro games
- Steam (of course)
- Removal of telemetry and possibly iptable rules to block Steam telemetry if any
- Graphical interface to do basic maintenance tasks without a keyboard (like a script launcher window). This could probably be the app launcher in gnome with some custom desktop entries
I just saw the huge list of sites that yt-dl supports, and it's ... well staggering. I've been playing around with it a bit more, and I'm writing custom aliases for ease of downloading. For example I made:
alias bandcamp-dl="youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --add-metadata -o '~/Music/%(artist)s/%(album)s/%(track_number)02d - %(track)s.%(ext)s'"
That alias allows me to do bandcamp-dl <http://some-album.url>
, and then it creates the proper artist and album directories in my music library, adds the tracks as mp3s with formatted file names, and sets their metadata so my music app can pick it up.
Anyone else have some handy aliases or yt-dl commands that do something cool?
TLDR: Outside of the regular circular arguments around housing we have in Portland what are your thoughts on building effective and equitable housing infrastructure for the cities future?
I think about housing a lot in Portland. We have obvious symptoms of poverty which need to be addressed, and we also have a housing market that is unsustainable. The housing market doesn't create enough vacancies that those who need homes can actually afford. Also, the ways new developments are built often both drive out marginalized communities and demolish historic structures. So, what do we do?
As a life long Portlander and a far-leftist, my bumper sticker solutions are usually of the form "we have enough houses for everyone so just put people in them", but that doesn't really get at the underlying problems and how to build reasonable housing infrastructure into the future.
I think the problem lies with how we address housing with a market and a market alone. Our options are limited into giving subsidies to land speculators and developers to coax them into building something "affordable" or at least "affordable" for a few years. We get stuck in this situation, because federal guidelines like the Faircloth amendment don't allow for new public housing being built without first removing existing public housing. Even when new public housing was being built it was being structured in a way that would lead to loss of community, neglect, no new investment, and blight. A future of mixed public housing where grants are given to both those that need a fully subsidized living situation and those with higher income who get smaller grants to live in the same community seems like a way forward, but again that is blocked at a federal level.
Is there a pathway forward for Portland housing infrastructure that can work within federal rules, and move money away from land speculators to helping people become home owners? These solutions don't seem often talked about. I think in combination with programs to treat the symptoms of poverty (investment in mental health programs, drug and alcohol addiction clinics, more sanctioned public facilities like bathrooms and community spaces to hangout and be less isolated) could go a long way compared to the circular argument we seem to get in between NIMBYs, YIMBYs, and advocates for the houseless like myself.
Maybe I'm dreaming IDK. What do you all think?
Roughly a dozen Portland police officers faced off with a small group at a Northeast Portland Fred Meyer on Tuesday after people tried to take food that had been thrown away.
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Over 330,000 Oregonians are currently without power. Most of those outages are concentrated in the Willamette Valley.
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My shitty little apartment held strong and never lost power, but it sounds like a lot weren't so lucky. I didn't realize it was so bad.