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Still cheaper than buying them in Australia!

I wish I’d have discovered Darktable 10 years ago!

Steam? Though I’m not sure I’m loving it… 22 years now… But it worked back then, it still works now, and it hasn’t lost itself to enshitification. It even followed me to linux.

I basically stopped riding my regular bike once I got an ebike, but that’s because I never enjoyed it. It was a tool for commuting, and not much more. My ebike though became my commuting vehicle of choice, but also gets used for daily trips to the shops, or meeting up with friends etc.

Maybe don’t get a reverse prince albert then :P

This is an older study, and it’s the one that convinced me to get an ebike after being against them for quite a long time. I always thought that they would just lead to me being less active, but seeing the data showing that people on ebikes ride more often and further than regular cyclists convinced me to jump ship.

And now I live in a place that’s doing its best to ban ebikes in all but name

Just not as welcome as other folk…

I learned to skate as a teenager, and would break in to the local high school on weekends to skate in the quadrangle. I’d line up the old wooden seats and jump them, and jump down flights of stairs… I was crazy…

Then I basically stopped skating for many years until I took up roller derby, and the old skating skills came in useful. I couldn’t do half the stuff I used to be able to do, but it still gave me a big grounding for derby

Roller derby and running. Football, cricket and tennis when I was a kid

To be honest, no.

I can’t even watch the sports I’ve played myself. Watching sport has never given me that feeling you’re describing

It’s not more useful than hashtags.

It’s a hashtag relay.

On the fediverse, there is no central “fire hose”, no central source of “every post from everyone”. Rather, when someone makes a post, the instance the post was created on looks at the list of people following the person making the post, and sends a copy of the content to all of those instances.

When someone boosts a post, the original post is sent to all instances that have people following the person doing the boosting.

And that’s basically it.

So if you’re on a single person instance, the only content you will see is the content created by or boosted by people you follow. No other content makes it to your instance, so your “global feed” and your “home feed” look the same.

On a big instance with lots of users, the global feed is just a master list of all of the public content that makes up all of the home feeds of the users on the instance. So the more users, the more content in the global feed.

And when you follow a hashtag, the only content you see is hashtag content that made it to the global feed. So if no one on your server follows a particular person, none of their hashtag content will make it to your instance.

Relays are a fire hose. Every instance that adds a relay sends all of its public content to the relay. And in turn, the relay sends back all public content it receives from every instance subscribed to the relay. So if you’re a single user instance, and you subscribe to a relay, your global feed will look very different to your home feed, because the relay will be sending you content from all of the instances subscribed to that relay!

tags.pub is a garden hose instead of a fire hose. It’s a way of getting filtered content from a relay, so that only content that matches the hashtags you or your admin have subscribed to make it to your instance. The other main difference between tags.pub and a typical relay is that individual users can subscribe to a tag on the tags.pub relay, and get content from it even if their instance admin hasn’t added it as a relay.

The recent lunar eclipse, taken in Brisbane, Australia!

10 years ago, I was running a LOT. I ran a lot of half marathons that year, and was doing about 300km a month towards the end of the year (About 10km a day). I was also developing a stress fracture in my shin though I had no idea at the time.

I started as a run director at my local parkrun (though I had started running at parkrun the year before in 2015). I’m still running parkrun today and volunteering as well, with 303 runs and 210 volunteers.

In 2016 my kiddo turned 11. They turn 21 in a couple of months!

I was dating someone new for the first time since getting divorced, though it didn’t last very long.

I think that’s probably it?

Turn myself in to a millionaire

If you’re not on the side of any marginalised group, if you’re neutral about their marginalisation, then you are ok with them being marginalised.

Which is why, as I said, a community can not be both neutral and safe.

Edit - Imagine my surprise when it turns out you’re a transphobe who complains about being called out for having “moderate” opinions about trans folk

Fair, but I would put it under the umbrella of “social pushback”. When someone gets enough signalling from the people around them, either at large, or just in their communities and sub communities, they can shift from their opinions. But I don’t think arguing holds a special power there. Just telling someone their opinion is harmful and you don’t want to hear it has the same effect in the long term

Yep. I’m trans. I have zero desire to exist in a space that is “neutral” to me having equal rights. I actively and deliberately choose spaces that are not neutral, and I imagine many/most marginalised communities are the same. Neutrality is not a privilege many of us can afford

People do change their mind over time, but not from repeated exposure to arguments. That tends to have the opposite effect, and causes people to consolidate and solidify their position.

What gets them to change the opinion is varied, but it’s rarely “lots of arguments”

I used to, when I used to believe people could change their minds in response to a good argument. Now that I realise no one ever changes their mind because of an argument, I no longer enjoy it. Now I mostly see it as a self reinforcing public display of affiliation

Lemmy is a neutral, open-minded, safe community?

A community cannot both be neutral and safe. Being safe involves picking a side and pushing back against harmful shit. Being neutral involves letting the harmful shit slide, as long as it’s hate presented in a civil and polite fashion.

Which is to say, I have absolutely zero interest in a “neutral” community.