There are plenty of cities around the world with downtowns closed to cars, and a lot of thriving stores.

There are solutions, this is not an excuse to to allow cars in city centers

Not same story, but some points in common:

In Valencia, after a flood, they diverted a river. The plan was to use the new available space for an urban highway (it was the sixties…), but thanks to people push back it was turned into e beautfult park

https://metropolismag.com/projects/how-valencia-turned-crisis-river-into-park/

/s maybe?

“Toc toc!”

“Who is knocking at the door?”:

Immagino che una differenza possa esserela formattazione, che per pocket, wallabeg etc è semplificata (solo testo e qualche foto), invece webclipper tenta di mantenere quella originale?

Come funzionail client Jobim cmq ci guardo

uso molto pocket, soprattutto per leggere in tranquillità articoli lunghi sul Kobo. Mi chiedo cosa faranno loro ora…

Woah, I think you catchet the biggest problem I have with it immediatly. I’m thinjking of opening an issue maybe?

We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance

But this doesn’t happen. Mastodon.social is far from 90%, and the former CEO made the choice of letting control go to an entity that is no-profit, I think it’s the right choice.

• The casual user joins mastodon.social (default highlighted choice). He can enjoy the Fediverse and discover its complexity with experience, not by understanding everything in advance.
  • He can the move to another instance if he feels so, after undetstanding what this actually means
• The more advanced user probably already knows the instance thing, and maybe doesn’t even use the offical app

I’m not sure, but i guess that it is replicating Twitter behaviour. I got used to that quickly.

But if you want a better experience you can easily find other front ends. I strongly suggest Phanpy that makes it really clear when a toot is part of a conversation/thread. It also does a lot of nice things like grouping boosts in horizontal carousels, collapsing long threads to avoid occpying the too many screens, and others, but it is still simple

I think your steps from 2 to 8 are summed up in

Create an account. Just like Twitter (or any other social media).

Meaning that those are not any different than what you need to do in Twitter or facebook. Actually the consents you need and the app permissions are much simpler in Mastodon case

By the way I think the communication can be much simpler:

From here: https://www.staygrounded.online/p/an-extremely-simple-guide-to-mastodon

How do I use Mastodon?

• Download the Mastodon app from the Apple app store or Play store.

• Create an account (just like Twitter or any other social media)

• Follow people, and get posting.

Why do tech journalists say it’s too confusing to catch on?

I have no fucking idea.

I mean: i found it very interesting that they have a small set of fundamental rules

• Half of the road space would be reserved for slow traffic
• all places still reachable by car.

and based on this they realized what the outcome would be.

So my point is like: do they have a similar set of fundamental rules in the Netherlands? how different is the outcome if the Swiss study applied those? For example, as pointed out in this article,

good quality cycle paths should be a maximum of 500 m apart and that extra cycle-paths should fill in the gaps

Anyway I do think that the link you posted is a very interesting study

I wonder how different this is from what is the normal way of doing things in the Netherlands

🤯

This argument is not sound: according to the video, if you exclude dangerous cycling activities (mountain bike, downhill…) the rate of head injuries you get biking is similar to the one you get for example when running. So either you think that also runners should wear an helmet, or your point is not backed by data.

And more expensive too!

Next step: reinvent the train, but call it uber on steel or uber on rails

We Italians eat too much pasta to be able to top the pizza rankings!

Jomo shared a collection of custom offline map styles and routing profiles for OsmAnd.

This is a great tip. i just added the cycle style and it’s nice

A group of Italian women who attended the event abandoned their short effort to join the platform half-way into the presentation, confused about where to go and which app to use.

Ouch!