Election Preview
www.abc.net.au
Western Australia Election Preview 2025

Big read, but gives a good perspective.

I think theres three big stories of this coming election.

  1. The rebalancing of metro v regional votes.
  2. Liberals progress clawing back traditional Liberal seats could indicate how satisfied West Australians are with WA Labor.
  3. Independent Challengers in western suburbs could indicate dissatisfaction with both majors for different and complicated reasons.
    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOPM
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      8 days ago

      So had a quick look at your lemmy history, sorry if that feels like an invasion but i’m trying to find context for your issue. I see you commented on a c/fuckcars post with a link to a forbes article. That community is on another instance so could be instructive, if that link worked?

      What i’m trying to ascertain is whether, as i suspect, theres not really anything i can do because its an interoperability problem between masto and lemmy, something for the developers of each platform to hopefully work out one day. If they wish to. Or whether we’re talking an aussie zone specific issue. In that case maybe the admins of AZ can weigh in @lodion@aussie.zone @Nath@aussie.zone

      In the meantime, if theres an answer for link breakages crossing from lemmy to mastodon that you or others on mastodon know about, i’d be happy to accomodate those links in posts, if possible.

      Also, personally i find the language used in your OG comment, like “hostile”, an aggressive tone to take for something thats likely a federation or technical issue. Doesn’t motivate me to be to accomodating. I’ve tried to be constructive, i appreciate the same.

      • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I don’t see an issue tbh?

        This is what it looks like on Mastodon:

        He says

        All they contain is a link to the aussie.zone site which is unreadable without creating a logon on that site

        But that’s not true, the site is clearly readable without needing to login:

        So I have no idea what he is talking about

        • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOPM
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          8 days ago

          Thanks, i’ve only had a few interactions with people on Mastodon, so i’ve not got the closest understanding of how the platform is different.

          I find it interesting that he’s following #Perth which i take to mean he gets everything Perth related on the fediverse?

          • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            8 days ago

            Everything with #perth in the post which somehow this one got

            I don’t know what added that tag though, I didn’t know you could add them in Lemmy tbh

            • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOPM
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              8 days ago

              Just went on to Mastodon seems like you can actually follow the c/Perth itself.

              Maybe it grabs the community field in the lemmy post as the hashtag automatically for mastodon?

          • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            8 days ago

            My guess (I don’t know for sure) is that Mastodon is interpreting all posts in “/c/perth” as a thread with #perth added to it, and for example, all the /c/asklemmy’s will be seen by them as #asklemmy (regardless of which instance’s /c/asklemmy it is). So if they follow #perth, they’d get all our /c/perth posts.

            I haven’t looked into inter-format federation much but as we’ve seen, it can get funky. Consider this (pseudo-)community: https://aussie.zone/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com

            It’s really Lemmy reading this PeerTube video channel as a community, so we can basically subscribe to and comment on a video channel from here!

            • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOPM
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              8 days ago

              That pseudo-community is an interesting experiment someones done. So this is almost like what people would have to do in walled gardens to have a channel on each platform, but an automatically updating lemmy community version from the peertube platform’s channel. I think i get it.

              So in my basic parlance it means a creator could set these up, post to a single preferred platform and have the post spread in an intelligible way to Lemmy. Potentially cutting down on a lot of extra admin and configuring by the creators using multiple platforms.

              Now i read what i’ve said back, i don’t know that i get this. Lol!

              • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
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                3 days ago

                Yeah, you’ve gotten the idea.

                I haven’t tested, but I believe it’s also a pathway to allow us to use our Lemmy accounts to leave comments on PeerTube videos, to up/downvote them and to subscribe, on ways that make sense to us as Lemmy users and which make sense to the PeerTube users seeing our comments on their videos.

      • Nath@aussie.zoneM
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        8 days ago

        I think I see what @Steve@aus.social is saying. If I search up #perth from Mastodon, I get this:

        Each link goes to Aussie.zone instead of the end news sites. If we didn’t appreciate federation, it’d look like a bunch of blog posts all to some random site being posted to /c/Perth.

        I agree that it’s a Mastodon issue: the destination url is a part of the post. They could link to there instead of the Lemmy instance.