robla

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I'm Rob Lanphier, aka "robla". Find out more about me at https://robla.net or https://robla.blog (among other places)

YOU ARE HERE: https://sfba.social/@robla
https://robla.net
https://robla.blog
#DooDooRadio
#Electorama
#electowiki

See also @robla on @mastodon.social as well as @[email protected] and @[email protected] and @robla at mastodon.xyz and some others I may be forgetting.

My birdsite profile has other info:
https://twitter.com/robla

PeerTubehttps://peertube.linuxrocks.online/a/robla/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/robla
Bookwyrmhttps://sfba.club/
Gitlabhttps://gitlab.com/robla
roblaJan 19
Should Approval Voting Have A Primary? I believe that all important elections that potentially have more than two candidates should have a primary to prune the list for general election voters, but many electoral-reform advocates disagree with me. My case: https://robla.blog/2026/01/17/should-approval-voting-have-a-primary/ #Democracy, #Elections, #News, #Politics, #Voting #Electoral
Should Approval Voting Have A Primary?

Should elections using approval voting have a primary and should primary elections even exist? My answers: “sure” and “yes!”. A ballot from the San Francisco’s 2024 ma…

RoBlaBlog
roblaJan 5
I published the December 2025 edition (the first edition) of the "ElectoramaNews" a few days ago, and recorded a video of me reading it. You can find the full text and a link to the video here:
https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaNews/2025-December
ElectoramaNews/2025-December - electowiki

Happy holidays, y'all! Welcome to the first edition of the ElectoramaNews, covering December 2025. This issue of ElectoramaNews provides a basic outline for future newsletters, while sprinkling in some of the news from earlier in the year. It mainly focuses on online conversations; future editions...

electowiki
roblaFeb 5, 2025
I just released the code for converting Brian Olson's "RCV Election Data" into ABIF and published the results using ABIF web tool (awt) . Now I'm publishing the results of over 400 elections:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1ihxmw8/over_400_elections_now_at_abifelectoramacom/
roblaJan 26, 2025
Eugen RochkoJan 25, 2025
I always struggle to pay attention to the metrics, but it looks like #Mastodon for Android downloads are up 455% recently. This tracks with how many new people I've been seeing on the explore page recently. Don't know if it's a coincidence but I think your help in fixing our app's rating might have had a hand in this...
roblaJan 22, 2025
@SidFudd - as you know, I've been thinking about reviving #DooDooRadio for quite some time now. It would be very different from its original incarnation, and it wouldn't be live. Episodes would be short and heavily edited. I've got ideas for how to make it a sustainable hobby on Saturday nights, and I'm curious if you'd be interested.
Show threadroblaJan 22, 2025
...and to clarify. I don't log into @robla very often. I log into my account @robla much more often.
roblaJan 22, 2025
Rob LanphierJan 22, 2025
@robla is my primary Fediverse account. I don't check this account very much, and only post here when I forget that I don't want to post here. I may set this up this account to redirect to @robla again, but I like being able to log into this server.
Show threadroblaJan 20, 2025
@plasticmachinist when did you switch to Linux as your daily driver? Was it before or after Linden Lab announced we were open sourcing the viewer?
https://web.archive.org/web/20070110103401/http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652796
SecondLife Goes Open Source (Sort of)

Client code is open source but without a mechanism for developers to participate in a collaborative development.

roblaJan 20, 2025

@seb : it would seem that @eloquence thinks that it would be easy for y'all to add Phanpy to sfba.social. I'm a little skeptical, but I'm curious what you think.

https://social.coop/@eloquence/113850886551980273

Erik Moeller (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Re: Phanpy, it's a static web app that just uses the Mastodon API -- there is no Phanpy server it has to talk to (phanpy.social just hosts a static copy of the code). So it's a pretty easy thing to offer alongside the Mastodon web UI for folks already running instances.

social.coop
roblaJan 20, 2025
I started a conversation on reddit about Facebook alternatives, which hasn't gotten a lot of traction yet, but hopefully it will:
https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1i5do62/list_of_serious_alternatives_to_facebook_is_there/