Liberals breaking a promise that wasn’t rooted in a sincere vision of what this country should look like, and instead was made to secure votes from a specific demographic group :shocked pikachu:

Very cool concept.

Always wanted to go to Def Con. Good luck & have fun!

I get the chicken/egg situation, for sure. Without material being posted, the community looks dead. I think the contentbot currently pulls things too far - with so many posts that are reddit links, with almost all of them having 0 comments on Lemmy, it kind of makes the community here look and feel like a proxy for r/edmonton. I see that you’ve put effort into making the contentbot bring over curated posts, and that’s really cool, but I think it’s bringing over too much.

I think an online community needs a few things to work well, and one of them is that It should be a water cooler, where people can talk about the news, share their views, & discuss. The news posts are brought here, which is great, but they get diluted by the amount of reddit links. Getting people to actually comment is hard, if they feel like they’re speaking into a void.

The thread/comment format is amazing for people to ask questions, and get good answers. Like, “where can I find a jewelers hammer in Edmonton?”. The sort of q/a that search engines deliver poorly on. But I understand, it’s hard to get that q/a going, if nobody is commenting. And I’d be disincentivized to even post a thread with that question, if the majority of the threads have 0 comments - I wouldn’t really expect an answer.

So, the goal would be to build on the existing subscriber numbers, and incentivize people to comment. There are already 425 subscribers, which is cool. And the users per month here is high for a city-centered community, so we know people want to be here. Maybe pinned weekly general discussion, and q/a threads would be a good way to get people talking? I’d comment in those, to try and get things kick started :)

I mean, that’s fine. Good, even.

Thanks to you for modding, and I appreciate your efforts. To speak honestly though, something that stops me from getting more involved here is that all the posts are almost exclusively made by a bot that links back to reddit posts. I think that’s kind of a bummer.

I think this platform is exactly the sort of thing that millennial politicians will be pushing for. So we’ll see it in maybe 10-15 years.

One of the first things Trudeau did as Prime Minister was break the top-line platform promise that got him elected - he promised Canadians that the 2015 federal election would be the last one under the first past the post system. So I’d say from the standpoint of democracy, he had an absolutely horrible start.

Of course he went on to reap the benefits of the imbalanced first past the post system for two subsequent federal elections, one of which he called unnecessarily during the pandemic in order to consolidate power for his party.

I think him and his party have been vaporware since day one.

The House partisan gamesmanship needs to be ignored if we’re going to be serious about national security and sovereignty. Canadians deserve to know if their member of Parliament wittingly aided a foreign interference operation. We need to know right now. The notion that an election could occur while undisclosed traitors are on the ballot? This would be catastrophic.

There are absolutely no excuses for the current government’s horrific file on foreign interference:

• Not already having a foreign agent registry in place
• Not acting on the NSICOP report immediately
• Attempting to discredit the NSICOP report
• Voting against transparency and accountability on this issue at every opportunity
• Threatening a sequel to the ‘Special Rapporteur’ circus by suggesting that an ‘internal review’ will somehow be satisfactory
• Failing to say something even as simple as ‘Members compromised by a foreign power should be removed from Parliament’.

There’s no good reason for any of it, and their inaction is an open invitation to China, India, and others for further interference.

It’s impossible to agree with Minister LeBlanc. Canadians cannot have confidence that police can investigate and lay charges when warranted. The NSICOP report details how our system is configured in such a way as to make that difficult or impossible.