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submitted 4 weeks ago by chris@fedia.io to c/teletext@fedia.io

In 1974, a brand new technology called teletext was being rolled out. It would, over the next few decades, have far-reaching implications, not only in the UK but worldwide. These are the stories of those involved in the production, restoration and art of the blocky medium that graced UK TV screens until 2012. You’ll hear from the pioneers, those who made teletext tick, and the newcomers keeping the medium alive 50 years after its inception. This is a social record of teletext, and these are the teletext people.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by chris@fedia.io to c/britishcomedy@feddit.uk

'A part of me is cavalier about survival... I can be a lunatic at times' - Rhod Gillbert and Angela Barnes on tackling one of the world's most dangerous roads

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submitted 8 months ago by chris@fedia.io to c/teletext@fedia.io

#sonic #retrogaming #digitiser With the help of their special guests Ashens, Larry Bundy Jr, Dan Does, Sooz Kempner and Beanus, Mr Biffo and Gannon take a lo...

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by chris@fedia.io to c/imaginaryfairies

I've been running this community for a while now and want sure how it would plan out. Thank you all for subscribing and posting both beautiful and creepy fae folk art. (Edit: I meant to post a bit more often myself but due to personal issues it's fallen by the wayside a bit)

As a Christmas special, in this thread only, please post photos of your Christmas tree fairies. 🧚

(I'm posting this from an alt as feddit.uk is down)

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submitted 11 months ago by chris@fedia.io to c/teletext@fedia.io

Aertel was formally launched in 1987 and will close on Thursday, 12 October.

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submitted 1 year ago by chris@fedia.io to c/ukcomedy@fedia.io

TL;DR: Please resubscribe to !britishcomedy / @britishcomedy


When I joined Kbin/Fedia back in June I was optimistic that it would surpass Lemmy in every way. I still prefer the interface, but because it's early days for it there isn't (quite yet) an API for running 3rd party apps and bots. So I signed up for Lemmy a month or so later and then discovered Connect, and I've been using that more and more and Kbin less and less.

It didn't really matter that some of my magazines (as Kbin calls them) were on Fedia as I could still monitor them from Lemmy and then log in if any moderation needed to be done (you can assign Lemmy users as mods but they can't do anything), right? Well, it appears not. I discovered a bug which means posts to a Kbin magazine don't federate properly unless somebody on the host instance interacts with them.

The bug has gained no traction at all even though I've proved it happens, and I'm getting increasingly frustrated with having to log in to Kbin just to upvote everything to get it to push articles and comments out to other subscribers. Especially as I have no way of knowing something is waiting until I log in...

So, the upshot of this is I'm moving this community/magazine to feddit.uk (arguably where it should have been originally but I wasn't familiar with Lemmy at the point I created it). I'm still optimistic for Kbin's future but the backend needs to improve!

Please re-subscribe using whichever of the following works for you:

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submitted 1 year ago by chris@fedia.io to c/teletext@fedia.io

The official lyric video for Sam Ryder - SPACE MANSam Ryder will represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin with the song 'SPA...

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Felling Transmitter Closure (www.freeview.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by chris@fedia.io to c/dtt@feddit.uk

On 18 September 2023, the Felling relay transmitter will close as a result of demolition. A small number of households who receive their signal directly from the transmitter may lose services once the transmitter closes.

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submitted 1 year ago by chris@fedia.io to c/ukcomedy@fedia.io

The two comics celebrate Ted's 10th birthday and the beautiful British countryside as their perfect series returns for a sixth time

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submitted 1 year ago by chris@fedia.io to c/dabradio@feddit.uk
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YS COMMUNITY MOVED (retrolemmy.com)
submitted 1 year ago by chris@fedia.io to c/yoursinclair@fedia.io

TL;DR: Please re-subscribe to !yoursinclair

I have taken the decision to move this community/magazine over to Lemmy. The main reason for this is because I want to run a bot to post some random issues/pages to make this community a bit more interesting and alive.

The new community is hosted over at retrolemmy.com as that seemed like an appropriate place to do so.

New links

One of these should work, if not then searching for the full URL usually works best in Lemmy.

!yoursinclair - Lemmy

@yoursinclair - Kbin

!yoursinclair - generic link for clients to decide what to do with

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Your Sinclair: A Celebration (www.yoursinclair.co.uk)

Half-remembered facts, forgotten memories and made-up lies about Britain's best-selling Spectrum magazine, Your Sinclair.

[-] chris@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

Is the pilot a cat?

[-] chris@fedia.io 35 points 1 year ago

A stupidly cheap (£2?) fleece I bought off a sale rail on a whim, thinking I would never wear it.

I practically lived in that thing, and still use it today.

[-] chris@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago

I think they just get marked as deleted, and what is supposed to happen is that the deleted comment gets picked up through federation and the destination server should delete their local copy. Sounds like that isn't happening between Lemmy and Mastodon.

[-] chris@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

There's some I haven't used, but Kbin will do Mastodon-style microblogging and Lemmy-style threads, so that's the best of both worlds. I don't think the private messaging function works on it yet though.

[-] chris@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

I think the key is "not much margin" - they just aren't making enough profit and presumably don't want to put the price up.

[-] chris@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

😂 The signs make no sense either - one-way left turn only, temporary sign which says no left turn!

[-] chris@fedia.io 77 points 1 year ago

"Bot account" identifies the account as being controlled by robots.
"Show bot accounts" says that you want to see those accounts run by robots.

[-] chris@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

Companies can host Mastodon (or Lemmy or whatever) on their own domain. That way they have control over the instance and it implicitly verifies their account as official. Raspberry Pi already do this (raspberrypi.social).

[-] chris@fedia.io 13 points 1 year ago

My Instagram account won't let me follow anybody for some reason (cites protection of users or somesuch). I never use it anyway. I've requested a data download and will delete it imminently, as it is completely useless to me.
May as well avoid them accidentally creating me a Threads account I don't want.

[-] chris@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago

Friendica, apparently. I've never used it.

[-] chris@fedia.io 41 points 1 year ago

You can interact on both platforms using one account, but the best experience is to have an account on each - Lemmy communities don't work very well on Mastodon, and Mastodon users can't be followed from Lemmy. Kbin is the middle ground which can do both.

[-] chris@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

feddit.uk is an active one, if you don't have any luck at the café.

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