Not Just Bikes
An attempt to recreate the /r/NotJustBikes community on Lemmy. I'm just reserving the Community Name, other folks (for instance the /r/NotJustBikes mods?) are welcome to take over.
NOTE: This sublemmy (?) is in no way related to or affiliated with NotJustBikes, Jason Slaughter, etc.
#RULES
1. Be nice. Please.
I know it's the internet, but be nice. And report trolls & spammers.
2. No memes
No memes, image macros, or low-effort posts. These are easily upvoted, but they pollute the subreddit very quickly.
POSTING MEMES WILL RESULT IN A TEMPORARY BAN.
3. Stay on topic
Try to stick to posts and comments related to the themes of NJB videos, or content creation. Things like urban planning, mobility & transportation, social equity, Dutch culture, etc..
4. No Trolling
Go troll somewhere else. We don't need that shit here.
5. No comment screenshots
Please don't post screenshots of stupid comments as a post. We all know there are ignorant morons online, we don't need to bring even more attention to their stupid comments.
6. No vehicular cycling
I have no patience for advocates of vehicular cycling. You can talk about vehicular cycling, but if you promote it as an alternative to safe bike infrastructure, I will ban you. You can post that crap somewhere else.
7. No people being hit by cars/road violence
Do not show videos or pictures of people being hit by cars, or other road violence. We don't need to see that shit. We know cars are dangerous, and many people have bad memories of car crashes. Keep it out of this subreddit.
8. No tone policing
We don't need any more tone police. If you don't like the tone that Not Just Bike takes in his videos, there's a very easy solution: stop watching them.
9. No internet drama
Don't spread or promote drama over what has happened on the Internet. You're spending too much time online: go touch grass.
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Paywalled...
Yes...it's Nebula... The streaming platform co-owned by Jason which he uploads his videos to before they make it to YouTube.
Understood.
Please just make that clearer in the description next time to perhaps spare people, who don't know these facts and have never head about Jason or Nebula before, unnecessary clicks.
We're in the Not Just Bikes community. It's reasonable to assume people here are familiar with Not Just Bikes, or are at least willing to get themselves caught up.
Well, I tried my best. Read the community info and all.
It contains strict policies against spamming and also low-effort posts.
And a post only consisting of just a link to a paid website would be considered both, meaning low-effort spam, by most people.
So please excuse my confusion. I think it should be understandable.
Your confusion is reasonable. Coming in and whinging about it when you yourself knew you didn't know the context is not reasonable.
You know, there are feeds which just show popular posts. Most of the communities in this feed people would be unfamiliar with if they browsed all/popular.
Sure, but most people don't come into a community they're unfamiliar with and start whinging about posts that are direct links to something created by the subject the community is dedicated to.
Saying a video is paywalled isn't whinging, but hey, you do you
Maybe, but "next time make it clear so I don't waste unnecessary time clicking links" certainly is.
Following the title of the community and its description, I (and apparently other people as well) got the distinct impression this subject to be "alternative urban mobility".
I now understand that it is a fan-community for some bike-influencer instead?
This came as somewhat of a surprise, as there are no obvious indications for it.
And, btw, the gatekeeping didn't help.
What gatekeeping? All I'm saying is people shouldn't come to a Not Just Bikes community and complain about links to a platform co-owned by Not Just Bikes. That's the equivalent of going to !politics and complaining about a link to political news.
Not Just Bikes is the name of a YouTube channel run by Jason Slaughter, focused on good urbanism. It takes its name from the thesis: "what makes cities in the Netherlands so much better than most of the rest of the developed world (but especially Canada and America)? It's not just bikes." In essence, it's about urbanism in all forms. Bikes, yes, but also public transport, density, land use, etc.
Thanks.
The second part is finally a very good example for a reply that is not gatekeeping but actually helpful.
Would perhaps be a good idea to have that exact paragraph be put at the top of the community description.
And regarding the first part:
If stumbling across a post linking to inaccessible content in any community:
Instant reaction will always be leaving a "Paywalled" or similar comment.
That's just basic netiquette to inform other users and give the OP a hint that he might want to do something about it.
I keep forgetting that Lemmy has communities rather than just one big feed. Every time I’ve found a community I liked, it turned out the post that drew me to it was the only one there for the next several months.
Their videos always drop on Nebula first. It will be available on YouTube later (and probably posted here again at that time).
@f314 @Multiplexer
This is just my opinion, but with Google's increasing hostility with regards to YT, they should also start mirroring to PeerTube in case Google restricts their YT channel, plus they already got a Lemmy instance, PeerTube would be a next logical step.
Slaughter is on Mastodon, but to my knowledge not on Lemmy. His profile also specifically says he won't create a PeerTube.
I don't know if you can search his history to see if he's ever explained why that is.
Interestingly, Canadian urbanists Shifter and Oh the Urbanity have got PeerTube channels, on the urbanists.video instance. Though I believe the channels are run by someone else on their behalf.
Nebula is their solution. It sucks that it's paywalled just like any other streaming service but they got more economics degree holders amongst them than me so they probably knew better how to run that business. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯