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According to the British Horseracing Authority, modern steeplechase races have an average of just over 4 equine fatalities for every 1,000 horses taking part in a race.[1] The Aintree Grand National yielded 7 equine fatalities out of 439 horses taking part between 2000 and 2010, a rate of almost 16 equine fatalities per 1,000 horses taking part (or 0.64 fatalities per race of 40 horses). In the five years to 2023, the fatality rate has risen by one-third, averaging 25 equine fatalities per 1,000 horses taking part (or one fatality per race of 40 horses).[2][3]

How many d'ya reckon this year? I have this crazy friend who says it's wrong to exploit horses to make money and entertain drunken gamblers. Is he crazy?

I've seen an uptick of users from here, I heavily suspect them all to be AI bots. They are flooding !casualuk@feddit.uk

I say "investigate" because I'm not 100% sure.

@flamingos@feddit.uk tagging you like this is some form of jira ticket xd

tværpostet fra: https://feddit.dk/post/20203631

The deposition of coins at the site has taken place since at least the 1960s, with visitors lodging the coins into cracks in the site's stones.[17] As of 2015, the local wardens from The National Trust are tasked with removing said deposits, and around 2010, English Heritage removed information about the coin deposition custom from the site's information panel.[17] The coins removed by the wardens are then donated to local charities.[18] As the folklorist Ceri Houlbrook noted, all of this deposited material "contributes to the ritual narrative of a site".[19]

Modern Pagans, including Druids and Heathens use Wayland's Smithy for ritual purposes. Anthropologist Thorsten Gieser thinks the modern ritualistic use of the site by new age religions to communicate with "ancestors", "spirits of the earth", and an "earth goddess" is symbolic of its folkloric links to Wayland and its use as a prehistoric burial ground.[20]

I quite like channel's 4 coverage over certain topics, it feels sometimes more impartial and more nuanced than BBC News.

They are quite left-leaning, which is great news for me, but I fear others might raise some eyebrows and feel the need to open more right-leaning communities (e.g. "gbnews" "channel5news" etc.) which might then heavily politicize/polarize this somewhat tame server, and also start making it overall more news-oriented, which is always a bad sign.

Yay or nay?

For context this is what I wanted to post on feddit.uk but couldn't find a suitable comm:
https://feddit.uk/post/44877928

Mark 10 years since the brexit referendum

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I'm getting an error looking up any community on lemmings.world via my client.

I'm not sure if lemmings.world is down, or the link which allows federation with feddit.uk has broken.

It's difficult to tell when I have no way of viewing lemmings.world any more due to the annoying geoblocking.

I did see a note on the feddit.uk homepage earlier about the server moving so hopefully it's just some IP addresses needing updating.

cc @rikudou@lemmings.world

I have been trying to upload an animated WEBP file to use as part of a post, however I get an error that says the file is "too wide".

The file in question has a resolution of 889x500, and a file size of only 3 MiB. Is this a problem with feddit.uk's image upload settings specifically, or is there a general issue with Lemmy and pict-rs?

Couldn't get onto lemmy.org instance yesterday and today it's refusing logins and redirecting to https://lemmy.org/yunohost/sso/

Anyone else able to see it?

More me being nosy than anything, I was thinking I've not seen much from GreatAlbatross or Emperor in a while and noticed Emperor hasn't posted in 6 months or so and Albatross is no longer listed as an admin. (If you've departed folks, thank you for everything - you resurrected feddit.uk when all hope was lost!)

Does that mean flamingos is the only active admin? Is there a backup plan if (heavens forbid) flamingos gets hit by a bus?

Also just generally curious if there's any instance news or plans going forward.

Just seems like an odd choice to defederate it.

Tbh i was looking forward to engaging in some debate with them.

did they break any actual rules or is it just because they're MAGA?

Edit: Before you angrily comment below (as so many have done so far) please keep in mind that this is a feddit.uk meta community and i am specifically asking the question to feddit.uk mods/admins and inviting discussion from feddit.uk users.

if you are not a feddit.uk user then this entire conversation DOES NOT AFFECT YOU. ~~I have yet to hear from anyone who actually is a feddit.uk user~~ Admin response here

Good day all,

You may notice that some images posted after the 23 August are missing. Sorry about that.

What happened is that I updated some packages through apt, which triggered docker to restart. This caused the pictrs database to become corrupted, but only partly because of the way its db (sled) does things.

I did manage to recover about half of the images through abusing image proxies and browser cache, so there's that at least. The whole of the data is also theoretically recoverable.

Needless to say, I'm going to move pictrs to postgres soon-ish.

Seems to go to an alternate front end, but not load?

Good day all,

Blorp is a web client for Lemmy/PieFed. You can now access it at b.feddit.uk.

It even has a dedicated community — !blorp@lemmy.ml

Very Apple-est, so not my cup of tea, but I know that design language is popular.

For the last two years, UK universities have attacked students for advocacy for Palestine, including censorship, restrictive speech policies, and the suppression of dissenting voices. These disgusting attacks on student speech are the opposite of what universities were meant for – creating an atmosphere where open enquiry, intellectual curiosity, and open discourse thrive.

The Social Innovators for Justice (SI4J) has just released The UK University Repression League Table, ranking UK universities according to their attacks on students, and investment and complicity in genocide. This list holds universities accountable, but more importantly it helps you, the students, choose the right university.

I'm not sure if that's my server config or yours. But my PieFed instance over at palaver.p3x.de is having difficulties connecting to feddit.uk
I've narrowed it down to IPv6:

[root@galahad:~]# curl -v -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean"         
* Host feddit.uk:443 was resolved.  
* IPv6: 2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2                                                                                                                                                                                        
* IPv4: 138.201.83.101  
*   Trying [2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2]:443...  
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):  
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / x25519 / RSASSA-PSS  
* ALPN: server accepted h2  
* Server certificate:  
*  subject: CN=feddit.uk  
*  start date: Jun 22 09:23:03 2025 GMT  
*  expire date: Sep 20 09:23:02 2025 GMT  
*  subjectAltName: host "feddit.uk" matched cert's "feddit.uk"  
*  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R11  
*  SSL certificate verify ok.  
*   Certificate level 0: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
*   Certificate level 1: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
*   Certificate level 2: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
* Connected to feddit.uk (2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2) port 443  
* using HTTP/2  
* [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: feddit.uk]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /c/buyeuropean]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.12.1]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: application/activity+json]  
> GET /c/buyeuropean HTTP/2  
> Host: feddit.uk  
> User-Agent: curl/8.12.1  
> Accept: application/activity+json  
> 
* Request completely sent off  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):  
* HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1)  
* Connection #0 to host feddit.uk left intact  
curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1)  

From my home IPv4 internet connection it works fine. Also once I add an -4 to the curl, it succeds and returns a 200 and the response.

I've opened a bugreport for PieFed but I think we need to find out whether I or feddit.uk has a borked IPv6 config. I can connect to other instances just fine, so I'm gravitating towards there is some issue with feddit.uk

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for support questions. Feel free to remove the post and point me somewhere else, or delete the post after this has been solved.

Inspired by the lemmy.ca post, I want to discuss if we should follow and defed lemmit ourselves.

For those who don't know, or forgot because they blocked the bot, it's a Reddit reposter instance. It has very low engagement, but posts a lot. About 30% of all posts on feddit.uk are from this bot (838192/2806651 when I did the SQL). It is also by far the most blocked user on the instance, 151 blocks with second being a mere 40.

It also only synchronises with Reddit one way, so if you reply to a post, the person on Reddit won't see it.

If no one has any objections, I'm going to go ahead and defed as I don't think it's worth having around. Especially the way it makes the 'New All' feed useless if you don't have it blocked.

Two years on and we're still here, go us!

Good day all, in response to the increase in transphobia we've experience since the For Women Scotland v Scotland Supreme Court decision, seemingly a mix of genuine malice and people tripping up with a topic they're unfamiliar with, I've taken the initiative to write some guidelines on how to engage in the topic and clearing up some common misconceptions.

https://guide.feddit.uk/politics/transphobia.html

I'm not all that happy with them, I want something more comprehensive but my time has been pretty taxed lately and I don't want my perfectionism to stand in the way of having these out. If there's any issues, glaring omissions or whatnot, then please let me know or make a pull request here.

To start off, I am no stranger to this. What one might call incitement of mob reaction has been a notable issue in my experience, with elements of smear and revealing personal information, and some people making this their whole existence. Some people have been known to stir things in a way where you can sometimes put evidence three inches in front of them but see them not care because their sentiments have been raised. Often it will also invoke blurry lines in the rules, and I have come to ask my question because some do their mix of slander and personal info in this instance (again, the part of people making it their whole existence is relevant here). Often it has gotten to the point where those who have stood up to them have gotten bans for the sole reason that it's too much to handle for certain authorities, with them throwing their hands up and being like "I give up, clear the board", sometimes because the key is outside their jurisdiction, with one of the communities I used to help management of going through an identity crisis because they went after other authority figures. What are the boundaries between (in the eyes of management) acceptable and unacceptable unrest?

Good day all, the Lemmy devs (the people that make the software this website runs) are currently underfunded. If you're willing and able, then it'd be greatly appreciated if you could donate to help out little corner of the internet get better.

If, for whatever reason, you don't want to support the hosting of lemmy.ml but do want to support the developers, then make donations through something other than OpenCollective.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and I work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Unfortunately the amount of donations has decreased to only 2000€ per month. This leaves only 1000€ per developer, which is not enough to pay my bills. With the current level of donations I will be forced to find another job, and drastically reduce my contributions to Lemmy. To avoid this outcome and keep Lemmy growing, I ask you to please make a recurring donation:

Liberapay | Ko-fi | Patreon | OpenCollective | Crypto

If you want more information before donating, consider the comparison with Reddit. It began as startup funded by rich investors. The site is managed by corporate executives who over time have become more and more disconnected from normal users. Their main goal is to make investors happy and to make a profit. This leads to user-hostile decisions like firing the employee responsible for AMAs, blocking third-party apps and more. As Reddit is a single website under a single authority, it means all users need to follow the same rules, including ridiculous ones like censoring the name "Luigi".

Lemmy represents a new type of social media which is the complete opposite of Reddit. It is split across many different websites, each with its own rules, and managed by normal people who actually care about the users. There is no company and no profit motive. Much of the work is carried out by volunteer admins, mods and posters, who contribute out of enthusiasm and not for money. For users this is great as there is no advertising nor tracking, and no chance of takeover by a billionaire. Additionally there are no builtin political or ideological restrictions. You can use the software for any purpose you like, add your own restrictions or scrutinize its inner workings. Lemmy truly belongs to everyone.

Dessalines and I work fulltime on Lemmy to keep up with all the feature requests, bug reports and development work. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. Previously I sometimes had to rely on my personal savings to keep developing Lemmy for you, but that can't go on forever. We partly rely on NLnet for funding, but they only pay for development of new features, and not for mandatory maintenance work. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached Dessalines and I can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. Please use the link below to see current donation stats and make your contribution! We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

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Not seeing much talk about it.

So no:

• AI generated memes of images
• AI generated answers to questions

edit: this applies to feddit.uk communities, we won't block AI art communities on other instances or sanction our users for posting on them.