Glad to hear that you live in such a wonderful place! The baby is indeed doing well, and relatively speaking so are we (the parents). Here’s to a calmer life in the medium-term haha!

I am supremely jealous of your ability to take time and have no idea what to do. I have a 7 month old kiddo and a partner who plans our calendar months in advance. I dont think I’ll ever have a weeklong stretch of unspoked for time ever again in my whole life.

That’s concerning and I’m not saying they’re perfect. They’ve been very clear that they’re overwhelmed by all of the new folks here and the unexpected workload. Perhaps already being overloaded with content moderation om Beehaw was reason enough to defed from instances that would only make that problem significantly worse?

Glad they deleted it, but I am also glad that the mods saw this possibility and acted proactively before that shit could accidentally make its way onto our timelines. Beehaw is an intentionally safe space - that is much more of a stated goal than protecting libertarian “free-speech” or having an expansive presence on the threadiverse.

Even a single negative or hateful post showing up can have a profoundly negative and harmful effect on the community. We need to take this shit seriously and I am so so so thankful to have mods who are unafraid to act boldly here.

If you want an instance that is 100% reactive to hate speech and prioritizes your access to other instances at the potential risk of other instance members, maybe Beehaw ain’t the place for you (and that’s ok!)

I’m perfectly OK with Beehaw de-fedding from 75%+ of all lemmy inatances, including very large and popular ones, if it means keeping this space consistently free of hate. We are a community, not a platform.

Much love!

At least here in Canada, I think the economic split between homeowners and renters is going to become massively painful. The government needs to step in and take dramatic action to fix this problem, but doing so could theoretically tank the price of housing, and with so many people having bought at super-high prices, a significance portion of the population (also, the majority of whom have lots of wealth) might get royally fucked. The government might have to make a decision about which portion of the population to protect, and which to sacrifice.

I really love that since kbin and lemmy federate with each other, there’s really no real drama about the budding rivalry because whichever one you choose you won’t have to miss out on content from the other! Plus having two separate platforms only increases the diversity and resilience of the fedi-aggregator universe. It makes it harder to kill/write off and its also the end goal of why we’re all here in the first place! 😊

Some of us are going through an actual grieving process over losing reddit. That place was my online home for like 15 years. It’s the kind of thing that definitely deserves drunk-bar-ranting.

❤️

The book “The Miracle Pill” is a good read on this topic if anyone’s interested

I’m a mod over at that sub - I’m glad you found it and thanks for sharing! Perhaps it might be good to do into to mechanics posts for people to learn stuff that they can do on their own if they are commuters.

The USA

Happy to be here - thanks mods for making this place work even under such an insane load of new users!

A sub for Bike Mechanic stuff - either submit a photo/issue, or brag about new tools kind of thing

The part of British Columbia that is just east enough of Vancouver to stop being a beautiful coastal rainforest and start being treeless, godforsaken farmland. It was a rainforest with a beautiful lake 150 years ago but then the settlers showed up, drained the lake, cut down the trees, and turned it all into farmland so we can have raspberries.

So far it’s going well - I have a bike mechanic stand that I forgot at a venue a few weeks ago that I’m hoping is still there. Life is so hectic with a 6 month old kid and full-time job that I’ve literally not had the mental bandwidth to lean into the communications game to get it back until today. Fingers crossed.

As a newbie, I am so grateful for your time, effort, and expertise. I can already tell this place is so cool - thank you!!!