Here’s a community for Greater Manchester: !manchester@mcr.town

👋 I’m from Torquay originally. Living in Manchester these days, though.

Not so sunny now!

If you’re interested in a Manchester based group, btw, I’ve set one up at !manchester@mcr.town

I live in Manchester, so I have tram lines to contend with. With them you’re often going along the lines so it’s extra terrifying!

Ooh. I’ve never ridden a Brompton but I could see how it would present extra difficulties!

I’m feeling like I should add a sausage to mine!

Oh wow! I only just realised you were talking from your Mastodon account and I’m on a a thread on Lemmy. I’m completely amazed at how well that works!

As someone who used to cycle Dartmoor a lot, I have a technique for normal cattle grids.

Speed up at much as possible, grip the top tube with your knees, cling onto your hoods with white knuckles, close your eyes and pray to any gods you can think of. It’s always worked so far.

In all honesty though, stop pedalling, hit them at 90⁰ and do not turn the handlebars and you’re fine.

Funnily enough, we got a new mattress recently (it’s amazing after the ill-advised rolled up foam one we’ve been using for years) and also had a crap experience with Dreams. We ended up at Benson’s and they were great

There’s a word I had to look up and will now annoy everyone with as much as possible!

Also stirred a memory of a Terry Pratchet book from a scarily long time ago!

Let us know what you win at the tombola!

I completely agree.

Also lemmy’s UI is shocking, especially on mobile. Although I’ve spent much of my career working on that sort of stuff so I wonder if I’m over-sensitive to it. Which suggests maybe I should have a look and see if I can offer some improvements. I think a few small fixes would go a long way.

I’ve had the same problem in the reverse direction.

My understanding is that kbin and Lemmy aren’t necessarily working perfectly together at the moment. Although I heard a lot of that was to do with kbin using Cloudflare protection, which I think they’ve turned off now.

Things here certainly aren’t as mature as Mastodon yet but hopefully more users will drive more development.

I’ll have a look into this stuff better once I’m on my laptop instead of my phone!

Hey, have fun in Manchester! You might be glad to know, I’m looking out my window and it’s a bit overcast but doesn’t feel rainy yet.

The Apollo’s a great venue but I’m always disappointed by the lack of pubs nearby.

Got a long weekend since the US based company I work for has given us all Juneteenth off. This means I will be heading for the pub as soon as is socially acceptable!

If it does rain, by the way, it’s my fault. New patio set arrived last night.

And tomorrow, yep, more Tears of the Kingdom will definitely be happening!

I can’t hear the word eddies without thinking Hitchhiker’s Guide

“Eddies,” said Ford, “in the space-time continuum.”

“Ah,” nodded Arthur, “is he. Is he.”

I grew up in a seaside town and I’ve never heard of a lemon top. Is it just a NE thing?

It was always going to happen. Big companies like this make unpopular decisions for business reasons. In some cases there’s an outcry, and for social media sites that outcry is amplified by the simple nature of the site, but it always dies down.

Most people simply don’t give a shit about this stuff and Reddit will make more money from the 90+% of people who remain then those who left anyway.

My only hope is that shearing off of some customers is enough to make this a sustainable community here in the same way that happened for Mastodon.

I agree, but I wouldn’t undervalue how much that simple human connection can mean to people who really need it.

What I think is needed is a way to migrate communities and users between servers and something like the Mastodon Server Covenant so people would have time to migrate if a server decided it was going away.