Election Preview
www.abc.net.au
Western Australia Election Preview 2025

Big read, but gives a good perspective.

I think theres three big stories of this coming election.

  1. The rebalancing of metro v regional votes.
  2. Liberals progress clawing back traditional Liberal seats could indicate how satisfied West Australians are with WA Labor.
  3. Independent Challengers in western suburbs could indicate dissatisfaction with both majors for different and complicated reasons.
  • iktEnglish
    4·
    11 hours ago

    I don’t see an issue tbh?

    This is what it looks like on Mastodon:

    He says

    All they contain is a link to the aussie.zone site which is unreadable without creating a logon on that site

    But that’s not true, the site is clearly readable without needing to login:

    So I have no idea what he is talking about

    • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaOPM
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Thanks, i’ve only had a few interactions with people on Mastodon, so i’ve not got the closest understanding of how the platform is different.

      I find it interesting that he’s following #Perth which i take to mean he gets everything Perth related on the fediverse?

      • eurekaEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        My guess (I don’t know for sure) is that Mastodon is interpreting all posts in “/c/perth” as a thread with #perth added to it, and for example, all the /c/asklemmy’s will be seen by them as #asklemmy (regardless of which instance’s /c/asklemmy it is). So if they follow #perth, they’d get all our /c/perth posts.

        I haven’t looked into inter-format federation much but as we’ve seen, it can get funky. Consider this (pseudo-)community: https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected]

        It’s really Lemmy reading this PeerTube video channel as a community, so we can basically subscribe to and comment on a video channel from here!

        • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaOPM
          1·
          8 hours ago

          That pseudo-community is an interesting experiment someones done. So this is almost like what people would have to do in walled gardens to have a channel on each platform, but an automatically updating lemmy community version from the peertube platform’s channel. I think i get it.

          So in my basic parlance it means a creator could set these up, post to a single preferred platform and have the post spread in an intelligible way to Lemmy. Potentially cutting down on a lot of extra admin and configuring by the creators using multiple platforms.

          Now i read what i’ve said back, i don’t know that i get this. Lol!

      • iktEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        Everything with #perth in the post which somehow this one got

        I don’t know what added that tag though, I didn’t know you could add them in Lemmy tbh

        • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaOPM
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Just went on to Mastodon seems like you can actually follow the c/Perth itself.

          Maybe it grabs the community field in the lemmy post as the hashtag automatically for mastodon?