100% agree. I’m riding an early 90s Yokota Catalina as my daily driver and it’s like a tank. That thing is going to live forever, and as long as I keep up on the basic maintenance, it’s a dream to ride. There’s no way in hell I’d be tempted to switch over to a new bike with a delicate and expensive to repair brake system, or electronic shifting that costs more than a set of winter (car) tires to repair.

The initial “oh shit!” to the nihilistic “oh well…”

If the bike keeps operating without issues, it’s best to do a quick check to see if you dropped anything, and if you’ve still got all your stuff, you’re probably safe to assume it was a pinecone or something

I feel like The Onion should host their own PeerTube instance, just for the sake of using an incredibly cheeky domain name like ifuckinghatewatching.video or something cooler like onion.media or something

It’s pixie dust

I live in Canada and have stopped storing any data in the US. Give me EU data hosting ALL DAY.

Bury him with dogshit in his mouth

It must be nice to live in a country that is capable of building things other than highways and single-family home suburban developments.

Wow that is such interesting insight, thank you for sharing! They just came out with a really interesting new model called the Buffalo Utility S2 that has 2 separate chains and is supposed to be designed for hills that the original Buffalo doesn’t do great on.

That’s a cool looking bike (the one from your childhood). What kind of bike do you ride now?

Its true, but we do also have a proven base of both users and experienced admins that has proven to be resilient and self-sustaining even in the world where the winds of capitalism or VC money aren’t throttling growth.

Its always a risk putting your faith into a single person, but Dan is the same guy who built Pixelfed. He’s a Fediverse OG, literally the exact opposite of a grifter. Trusting him is a risk for sure, but I can’t think of many other developers I’d trust more than him (at least in terms of his intentions and determination… I’m not a skilled dev so I can’t speak to whether he actually does good work, but Pixelfed seems incredibly legit given the limited resources he’s worked with)

Threads is implementing it in phased rollouts and I think they saw the writing on the wall with X that Bluesky was the next “big thing” and wanted to jump on a competitor protocol that had already been developed and already had an active base of both users and developers.l, whereas Bluesky is building everything in house from the ground up with the AT protocol.

WordPress has a plugin that is developed by Automattic (as close to core WP as you can without actually being core WP) which essentially turns every WordPress site into an ActivityPub feed. Its really cool and an incredibly powerful tool for publishers.

Flipboard is also implementing ActivityPub as we speak, and it seems like they are quite bought in on the concept. Their CEO hosts a podcast about the Fediverse.

Ghost is a publishing platform similar to Substack that is also working to implement ActivityPub and is doing a lot of the heavy work in terms of trying to figure out what longer-form publishing could look like within the fediverse, as opposed to being a network of different Twitter clones.

Mastodon is never going to be That Platform and that’s ok. It doesn’t need to be. The ActivityPub protocol is the highest value aspect of Masto, and there are a handful of other, larger, easier to use platforms that are adopting it.

I use Bookwyrm specifically because its barebones. It’s my favorite platform

I bought a Cleverhood last year and, while it was really cool, it didnt fit very well with my commuted at all. Just not my bag I guess.

I really hope this does something good! It still kind of blows my mind that Doug Ford’s brother was one of the first people to popularize the phrase “war on cars”. What a nightmare that family is.

Today was not about determining consequences / repercussions. It was only about deciding yes or no on the monopoly issue. The next step in the legal process is determining repercussions for Alphabet, and it seems like there are some pretty dramatic options on the table.

Why not both?

As a current biker, I’ve gotta say I don’t care what you think is overblown. Thanks for your unnecessarily crass comment that contributed nothing of value to the thread. Have a downvote and don’t feel obligated to hang around here any longer if you feel triggered by cyclists who don’t appreciate coal rolling.

To be honest I’ve found a really incredible community of like-minded people on BW and regularly find top quality book suggestions just from seeing what these people are reading. One key is to find your favorite books, and then follow lots of the same people who felt similar to you. Some will be misses and have bad recommendations going forward, but at least a handful will be very like-minded readers.

I’m probably the most vocal person for car-free lifestyles and micro mobility in my community, and I absolutely hate the the effect that these stupid things have in the car-free discussion.

At least as their existing solutions were rolled out, they made public spaces uglier and more dangerous for all involved.