The answer is simple and requires legislation to: 1. The ticket managing companies (TMs) chosen to manage the ticketing have an agreed per ticket price and transparent and capped transaction fees.(no markup & capped, say £1/ticket + £1/transaction) 2. Everyone buying a ticket MUST provide recognised photo ID for each ticket, which will be stored on a database 3. When turning up at venue, ticket's stored photo MUST match person. Onus on purchaser to ensure photo is a good & current likeness. 4. If customer no longer wants their ticket, it can ONLY be redeemed for its face value with the original TM + actual transaction costs (same as original purchase) 5. The TM can only re-sell returned tickets for their face value and will associate it with the new buyer's photo ID
The last time America did something fucking cool, as a country, you went to the Moon and inspired humanity.
It's all been downhill ever since, and that was only achieved because you were trying to piss on The Russians.
I'm not talking about popular media, or private companies selling computers, movies or pop culture, America shines in many ways, but you're all so loud and self important, and you can't even get rid of that slimeball, he's like a joke Bond Villain laughing at you all. Come on.
Almost 80 years of cinema and TV programs have been pushing you to fight the bad guy at the top against all odds and overcome evil, and hes got his fucking ICE agents out on the street and most of your country is just 'Hey honey, there's a good deal on in Wendys, next week is Black Friday, Ima buy some white socks and wear them while watching the big game, the Detroit giant dolphins are finger banging against the Apache cancelled dodger bulls, get me a bud light'
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One of the obstacles to understanding the #fediverse is the misleading language used to describe it;
"More than 100 apps are talking with one another in the Fediverse, including the photo-sharing site Pixelfed and the music-sharing service Funkwhale. Still, Mastodon remains the biggest. That’s partly because anyone can set up a server there using freely available software created by Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko, and his small team."
I'm sure Annalee has figured this out over the last couple of years. But PixelFed is not a "site", FunkWhale is not a "service", and there's no "there" where anyone can set up a Mastodon server.
What she says about Mastodon being freely available software for anyone to use is just as true of PixelFed and FunkWhale. So that can't explain why it's the most commonly-used server software in the fediverse.
When what you're used to is centralised platforms, run on proprietary software, controlled by billionaire manbabies, the open social web is *weird*.
It's a confusing stew of unfamiliar names, some of which are software projects, some are protocols, some are organisations, etc. Names float around of people who appear to be influential, but it's far from obvious why they are, at least until you've been around for quite a while.
This communication problem holds us back. How to solve it?
"Mastodon’s moderation system is more mature. Rochko maintains a list of curated servers open to all comers, whose moderators have pledged to uphold the 'Mastodon server covenant'.”
Annalee clarifies this a few paragraphs later, but this list has absolutely nothing to do with the way the fediverse is moderated. Which is each server moderating its own members, and filtering what comes in from the rest of the fediverse;
"[Dan] Hon, the Code for America adviser, suggested that this could be an opportunity for shared-revenue models, in which servers offer micropayments to people whose posts are displayed next to ads."
Gross. Why can't most people seem to imagine a media system not funded by ads? Advertising, like carrier pigeons and telegrams (text messages transmitted by morse code and printed on dead tree), is a relic of a bygone media economy. Time for it to die.
"... every great community—even a nation—begins as an experiment, an idea that grows stronger the more we write and talk about it. Even if the Fediverse fails, it’s still worth doing. Annalee Flower Horne, a founder of the Wandering.shop Mastodon server, told me: 'We look at communities and say that if they end, then they’ve failed. But a community doesn’t have to be permanent to succeed'.”
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How to adults make friends? Like, real friends, not situational ones that drop off as soon as you aren’t in that situation anymore. Got asked this question today and I had no answers because I have no idea either.
@heidilifeldman That’s what I’ve always thought but there are in between steps. Being real too soon freaks folks out. I have extensive experience in that area. lol
Greg
in reply to BBC News • • •1. The ticket managing companies (TMs) chosen to manage the ticketing have an agreed per ticket price and transparent and capped transaction fees.(no markup & capped, say £1/ticket + £1/transaction)
2. Everyone buying a ticket MUST provide recognised photo ID for each ticket, which will be stored on a database
3. When turning up at venue, ticket's stored photo MUST match person. Onus on purchaser to ensure photo is a good & current likeness.
4. If customer no longer wants their ticket, it can ONLY be redeemed for its face value with the original TM + actual transaction costs (same as original purchase)
5. The TM can only re-sell returned tickets for their face value and will associate it with the new buyer's photo ID