UnanimousStargazer @ UnanimousStargazer @feddit.nl

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Wefwef will be called Voyager as of the next version (so following the current 0.17).

This is getting better by the day. It's really amazing at what speed this app is being developed.

Hoping for editing and deleting OPs as an update in the near future. But this update is obviously great as well.

What platform? Windows? Unix? Linux?

It's not very different than Reddit. Either browse communities or browse all posts and try to discover communities you like.

Might I suggest you download and install wefwef (which was renamed to Voyager recently)?

Wefwef/Voyager is a progressive webapp or WPA. You don't install it from an app store, but install from within any browser. It's much easier to navigate Lemmy with wefwef/Voyager, but there are more clients that you could try as well.

Yes, this happens sometimes, but I'm not sure it's wefwef related.

If you login to the Lemmy server your account is registered to, you probably won't be able to comment either. Only after you specifically choose the correct language next to the comment box, the comment is accepted.

The EU member states agreed to conserve natural habitats in the nineties. This resulted in what is called the habitat directive.

Every member state should aim for a certain target, but it's up to the member states to decide upon that target. For example, countries with a large logging industry will provably aim for a certain amount of conservation of forests. But that will inevitably conflict with the logging industry in one way or another.

The Netherlands has an extremely large livestock industry that exports 80% (eighty) to abroad. But cows and pigs also produce large amounts of manure, which cannot be exported. And manure is a source of nitrogen, which damages nature if deposited in high amounts. It's like over-fertilizing your lawn, by doing it every day. After a while, only the grass and certain nitrogen seeking plants will,flourish, but all other ground live and plants will perish.

The past governments have mostly ignored that up until now because of the export, but environmentalists started litigated in court claiming the government isn't following the EU directive. In 2019, the highest administrative court suddenly decided enough is enough and ruled no permits could be issued that add more nitrogen to nature.

So as off 2019, the government is busy reducing nitrogen where they can. For example, it's not allowed to drive any faster than 100 km/h on most highways where it used to be 130 km/h. But also building permits are restricted, because building leads to building traffic and more nitrogen deposition. The same goes for air traffic, which also grew way out of hand as the government tried to establish that Schiphol airport would become the main airport hub in the EU.

So now the biggest challenge of Rutte's government is reducing nitrogen deposition, which by far the farmers with livestock are mostly responsible for. But just as the logging industry dislikes certain forest conservation policies, farmers started protesting that they 'suddenly' couldn't proceed keeping livestock.

And to be fair, they were allowed that for years simply because governments didn't want to take the decision when the problem was small. But that's obviously the sane for governments with regard to climate change. It's much easier to downplay the problem or agree you will take action 'in the future'. But this was exactly what was agreed in the EU in the nineties. But not followed up on.

Enter the farmer's party BBB, who now won in large majorities across the provinces by opposing Rutte's government and in part downplaying nitrogen deposition.

But yet, Rutte suddenly came up with migration as the biggest 'problem'. Except that it isn't but the BBB is difficult to argue with if you want to win elections. Abd that's probably why Rutte and his campaign team worked out they are suddenly pushing migration as the major electoral problem, so they can try and circumvent the BBB.

Dutchie here.

It's pretty clear Rutte deliberately caused the collapse by suddenly demanding a new type of asylum policy where a limited number of children could join their parent who found refuge in The Netherlands.

Rutte knew perfectly well at least one of the coalition parties would never accept that and the other two were very skeptical about it. Ultimately, Rutte forced them to agree or disagree by stating the ministerial council would vote about it (and that is very uncommon for a coalition that works on the basis of trust). Beside that, there are way more important issues at hand now, like the nitrogen and housing crisis. And of course climate change. But no, Rutte (provably by incentive of his electorate) suddenly made this a major issue. Mind you: the number of people asking for asylum in The Netherlands this year is around 20.000 up until now and that's a normal number. No crowds of people seeking asylum to be seen.

So what is this all about? Rutte's party (the VVD) probably concluded this is the right time to have new elections in order to try and have the VVD become the largest party. Because the largest party usually gets to say who becomes prime minister. And hey, what a surprise, that's likely Rutte (again).

It's a setup and everybody and his mother knows it. Rutte is trying to create a new coalition where he can become prime minister again. And he set this up in such a way that migration suddenly is a major issue, where in fact it's other topics that are much more important.

But it's not at all sure the VVD will win IMO. The new farmer's party BBB won the provincial elections by a landslide and I wouldn't be surprised they will become the largest party. Not that that's a good outcome IMO, because the BBB often tries to downplay the nitrogen crisis. But my estimate is that most people will decide that the BBB is better than yet another round of Rutte.

The Court of Justice if the EU will very likely disallow the use of this authority in the future, but it often takes time to litigate in court up to a point where an organization can proceed to the EU Court.

It's a terrible way of politicians trying to circumvent fundamental rights, even though their goal always is to prevent crime. The simply pass the bill, wait until it becomes law, start doing their business, claim victory and then complain the EU Court disallows it.

Sigh.

I feel somewhat guilty that I mentioned it multiple times, because who am I to keep pushing on a feature?

But indeed, it's the only thing that requires me to go back to the website.

What it shows (I think) is that there's too much focus on content consumption and not enough on content creation. But Lemmy will not grow if the creation of content isn't facilitated. Simply because there is nothing to consume.

there are a few important features needed in order to get there:

Might I suggest (sorry that I keep nagging you):

0. editing and deleting OPs

IMO, I think this is an essential feature for version 1. I know little to nothing about app development, but it seems like a relatively simple upgrade to me.

But it's obviously just a feature request. You and the other devs are doing all the work and choose what you give priority.

According to Apple the device ID used by Memmy is coupled to my identity.

But Apollo used the device ID that wasn't coupled to my identity.

The devs keep coming up with all kind of improvements (which is incredible to be clear), but it still isn't possible to delete or edit an OP.

There's too much focus on content consumption IMO. It should be content creation at this point if time.

But again, I'm not doing all the work and wefwef is completely free of charge of course.

But it's still pretty amazing to me: it's like using Twitter or Instagram to read and reply to Reddit!

It's probably amazing because everybody is used to social media platforms blocking access to and from other platforms. The point of these commercial platforms is to reel in as many users as possible and keep them in the ecosystem. No export possibilities, no federation or standard protocol.

It's like a large company inventing e-mail and not allowing people to e-mail to an e-mail address registered to another domain. Nobody would think that's logical, but most have grown accustomed to commercial social media locking every account in.

I doubt a slow responsiveness has to do with wefwef.

Your account appears to be registered to lemmy.world. Might that be the reason why the past week was slow?

I don't understand why some people get so confused either. It's just like choosing an e-mail provider.

Create the account, try it out, if you don't like it, delete it. If you do like it, keep it. How hard can this be? Then again, it apparently is.

The client apps might help out by including an account creation wizard.