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To try to tackle this, the Welsh Labour government, alongside Plaid Cymru, introduced measures to curb second-home ownership. This included giving councils the ability to push council tax on second homes to 300% the usual rate. They also closed a loophole whereby second-home owners could register as a business in order to pay the much lower business rates.

Gwynedd council used these powers to hike council tax to 150% in April 2023. By the end of 2024, house prices had fallen by 12.4% as second-home owners tried to sell up. In Pembrokeshire, house prices fell by 8.9% after the council increased the council tax to 200% on second homes (though this was reduced to 150% recently).

World’s first gene-edited spider produces red fluorescent silk (newatlas.com)

submitted 3 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/Science@europe.pub

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cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/4034365

https://web.archive.org/web/20250520091052/https://newatlas.com/biology/worlds-first-gene-edited-spider-produces-red-fluorescent-silk/

Some spooky thoughts about it also there are already glow in a dark domestic flowers, and myself using florescent tape

Ali Velshi: The giant Trump banner at USDA is another sign the U.S. is sliding into autocracy (www.msnbc.com)

submitted 3 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29963701

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 5 months ago

That's a good argument. But shouldn't we then promote FOSS solutions like Perplexica?

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 19 points 5 months ago (32 children)

What can we do to get more people to switch over to Lemmy from Reddit?

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there any solution for that yet?

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And what can we do about it now? I mean we have the Fediverse. It's 20 million users are not the most but it's not nothing. We can build on that.

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

It's a secure messenger

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 5 months ago

What hosting do you use? You can easily host it using docker.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 4 points 5 months ago

I've never had any problems with low speed. Maybe it's hosting provider?

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you are a company looking for a forum, you want to be able to control it. Unfederated means you can control account access and don't have to worry about someone going to All and seeing porn etc.

We're talking about Reddit. It's one of the biggest porn sites out there. If anything, it's way easier to control what your employees see if they are on a company instance.

Also, which company uses Reddit as their forum? Most of the ones I have seen use Discourse, which is open source but unfortunately not federated.

Federated could work, but you need to make it clear that it's just a community on a platform.

We're all a big community. I think people get this quickly.

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 5 months ago

And still is Reddit by far the biggest. How can we change that?

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah but that isn't the greater population, unfortunately. What can we do to make the Fediverse more interesting for people?

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fun is always great to capture the masses!

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] tfm@europe.pub -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sorry but this sounds like a skill issue.