Hi all, I wanted to let you know about an incident that happened a few days back. An individual requested to become a mod on c/Portland when they thought there was no moderators due to a federation issue. Then, an admin mistakenly made them a mod.
I reached out to the admins to let them know I was upset by such a mistake happening on their part. I also de-modded the individual, but tried to encourage them to make a post getting input from all of you about becoming a mod. I'm honestly not against them becoming a mod.
I think having more mods would actually help this place grow. If you've posted here at least a few times, and are interested in volunteering, nominate yourself below.
I doubt anyone will have any red flags to call out, but if you do contact me about it or post.
Thanks all. I hope you were able to stay cool these past few days.
https://lemmy.ml/post/1945950
!portland@lemmy.ml [/c/portland@lemmy.ml] At this time, they have no mods. I use to moderate over on Reddit. But have moved here. I just made a new community on a different server that I moderate also.
Hi all,
I am noticing that a lot of what is being posted is the same outrage clickbait articles on crime and poverty that have overrun other Portland centric communities. These are absolutely important topics, and something I hope everyone is thinking about and involved with advocating for improved policy around. However, I do question the usefulness of a constant deluge of these types of articles.
When we go to a space like the local coffee shop, pub, or bookstore, a place where we immediately feel the "Portland vibes", we usually aren't met with a non-stop stream of poverty, drug, and crime news. If I we were, then we would probably leave (or at least I would). Similarly, I feel like our online space can be so much more than just the same daily rehash of divisive arguments that don't go anywhere.
This is especially true on our Lemmy community, where we are small and still developing a culture. There are not many other types of posts here yet, so the click-bait outrage headlines dominate. Personally, I would love to see more events, reviews of concerts, pictures, slice of life stories, and other things that make this feel like the "Portland vibes".
This isn't a moderation decision. It's more of an appeal. I haven't removed any links or banned anyone (other than some obvious malicious spam), and I don't plan to. I haven't even been down voting.
IDK ... what do you think about the future of this space and how we might build a community space that isn't just local doom scrolling?
Hi all. Welcome to the Lemmy c/Portland.
I've been on federated sites for awhile, and tried to mod this community awhile back, but adoption had been slow and I let it sit.
As such, it's available for us to make it whatever you want. Please make sure to follow the lemmy.ml rules.
I also humbly request we attempt to not fall into some of the issues with r/Portland where it devolves into a crime blog/NextDoor-like space or become a platform for some of the local PACs to push their agendas (on any side).
Lets just be neighborly and if we disagree, then we'll work it out. If the place takes off, then we'll work together to codify more custom ground rules for discussion.
With that said, howdy neighbors.
I reserved a Deck day one within a minute and I think I might be in the initial launch (still no expected ship date listed though the payment processed and I got the confirmation email within a couple minutes). Whenever I get it, I'm hyped.
I'm not a typical user. I do enjoy handheld games, but I also am an Arch Linux user (btw), I deploy servers, I write code, blah blah blah. My current personal computer is an old T430, and I plan to use my deck as a daily driver as a desktop at home, a media center on the couch, handheld in bed, and a tablet on the go. To meet those use cases I plan to do a custom Arch install.
Is anyone else planning on doing something similar?
Some things I'm starting to plan out are:
TLDR: Outside of the regular circular arguments around housing we have in Portland what are your thoughts on building effective and equitable housing infrastructure for the cities future?
I think about housing a lot in Portland. We have obvious symptoms of poverty which need to be addressed, and we also have a housing market that is unsustainable. The housing market doesn't create enough vacancies that those who need homes can actually afford. Also, the ways new developments are built often both drive out marginalized communities and demolish historic structures. So, what do we do?
As a life long Portlander and a far-leftist, my bumper sticker solutions are usually of the form "we have enough houses for everyone so just put people in them", but that doesn't really get at the underlying problems and how to build reasonable housing infrastructure into the future.
I think the problem lies with how we address housing with a market and a market alone. Our options are limited into giving subsidies to land speculators and developers to coax them into building something "affordable" or at least "affordable" for a few years. We get stuck in this situation, because federal guidelines like the Faircloth amendment don't allow for new public housing being built without first removing existing public housing. Even when new public housing was being built it was being structured in a way that would lead to loss of community, neglect, no new investment, and blight. A future of mixed public housing where grants are given to both those that need a fully subsidized living situation and those with higher income who get smaller grants to live in the same community seems like a way forward, but again that is blocked at a federal level.
Is there a pathway forward for Portland housing infrastructure that can work within federal rules, and move money away from land speculators to helping people become home owners? These solutions don't seem often talked about. I think in combination with programs to treat the symptoms of poverty (investment in mental health programs, drug and alcohol addiction clinics, more sanctioned public facilities like bathrooms and community spaces to hangout and be less isolated) could go a long way compared to the circular argument we seem to get in between NIMBYs, YIMBYs, and advocates for the houseless like myself.
Maybe I'm dreaming IDK. What do you all think?
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/02/portland-police-guard-dumpster-face-off-with-residents-trying-to-get-discarded-food-from-fred-meyer.html
Roughly a dozen Portland police officers faced off with a small group at a Northeast Portland Fred Meyer on Tuesday after people tried to take food that had been thrown away.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/02/15/last-nights-ice-storm-caused-the-largest-power-outage-in-oregon-history/
Over 330,000 Oregonians are currently without power. Most of those outages are concentrated in the Willamette Valley.
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