NebLem

Agree. If only I could convince more of my friends to drop siloed socials and get fediverse accounts, I’d have a solution for that, but that’s not happening.

TIL about that option, thanks.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ is pretty awesome for getting human generated / small web content.

If I’m looking for people sharing my hyper-fixation https://aboutideasnow.com/ is excellent. https://searchmysite.net/ is a indieweb opti-in only tool with similar usecases but not much is there. Lemmy

https://www.mojeek.com/ I have as my default browser search to try to support as its the only real large index comparable to Google and Bing (DDG uses), but it falls short a lot.

DDG is my primary engine when I need something fast / the others don’t work.

If I can’t find it in the small web and regular search fails, I’ll sometimes try the udm14 Google trick https://udm14.com/

After that its posting to the askfedi hashtag (or ask here)

I forgot the LemmyWtf Peertube community had this directory of recommendations: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

Outside of what others posted, here’s a quick list:

North American Urbanists: CanadianCivil has Paige Saunders, OhTheUrbanity, and Shifter. Urbanists.video has Heartland Urbanist

FOSS stuff: Penpot (foss figma, they have their own instance) Emacsconf (on Toobnix)

Fedi folks: Elena Rossini (on her own instance)

Fedi.video is a great place to discover other stuff outside of just using Sepia/in-app searching by what you’re looking for.

I wouldn’t mind age or “is a person” verification done with privacy protecting means, such as GNU Taler blind signed token solutions that are open source and audited by independent security teams, but that isn’t getting implemented. Instead every “verification” service is a literal privacy nightmare simultaneously linking identity to speech and harvesting user data for sale.

Non-EU parts of the world should be encouraged to have better data privacy laws as part of their trade deals with the EU.

https://theindiebeat.fm/ - in many ways a successor to RadioFreeFedi that plays a variety of channels of Fedi indie artists. Plays opted in artists hosted on Bandwagon.

http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_world_service - sometimes listen when I want a news fix

http://live.lora924.de:8000/lora-hq.mp3 - public radio in München, trying to learn more German and its a decent mix of talk and music.

Outside getting people to join a fedi platform, Matrix instance, or Signal, all a non-trivial ask, you could see if they’re on Discord or WhatsApp already, which while neither is great at least its a step away. You could do a simple SMS group, if you are okay with the privacy risks - almost everyone still had a phone number.

Post mail surprisingly is still a thing too if you are okay with delayed messages and there being cost.

You can get the RSS feed and check it in a feed reader, for example for Sh.itjust.works you can use the feed https://sh.itjust.works/feeds/local.xml?sort=Active .

I’m not aware of any Lemmy app having such a feature though.

Only thing not really mentioned in the other comments are Pixelfed and PeerTube. Again you gotta make genuine stuff not ads but if you put at least some effort in the videos and post semi regularly (and ideally use your own instance) you’ll be top in whatever niche you choose to highlight your business with. I can’t say the garden tending would make great business sense (it won’t bring you many new customers) but if the work you do is your passion, its another outlet to share it. Its also not bad to have your own (labeled) ad channel (on your instance), archives can bring nostalgia / meme material, but local only, and don’t boost them.

I don’t think it’d be bad to have your own threadiverse and microblogging platform instances for support and slice of life type stories, but that’s for interacting with existing customers and fans, not for gaining new ones. I’d caution interacting outside of your instance in that space unless pinged / mentioned directly, even more carefully than you would in other socials.

You all exit your editor? How you do the rest of your computing?

/s with ♡ from an Emacs fan.

https://marginalia-search.com/ is pretty great for a different approach to search. While not exactly what you were asking for since its free, you can definitely pay via donations if you find it valuable.

IANAL but many localities have provisions that guests become defacto tenants after certain timeframes. This CO lawyer’s blog I found searching for your state’s tenancy laws might be a good read. https://www.colorado-violent-assault-crimes-criminal-lawyer.com/colorado-criminal-law-rights-of-a-house-guest-vs-colorado-trespass-laws

I’m a supporter of a few non-profit local news sources and they’ve been awesome.

I’ve been liking https://legiblenews.com/ but NPR marketplace and morning edition has been amazing for a traditonal source (I love https://text.npr.org/ too, not enough sites offer that amazing of UX) for national/world news. BBC World Service is pretty good too.

Ground News is nice for its blindspot feature but I think I’ll be sending my money elsewhere when renewal hits.

I don’t have much to say except I love the amount of effort you put into that comment! Thanks for making the fedi awesome!

No. The internet and the later WWW have been so instrumental in my life there is no way I’d have not had been influenced differently.

I’ve worked through so many arguments and unsafe questions in online spaces that simply wouldn’t have been possible in the very conservative areas I grew up. I’d likely have had to seek answers with out groups and ended up elsewhere adding to my changed influences. I’d have likely had a very different career path too.

I’m faithful that I’d have ended up in the same religion but it’d have taken a much darker journey to get there.

LockPickingLawyer

Steve Wallis (Camping With Steve)

Math Queen

Vim is well emulated in Emacs, but it really shouldn’t be thought of in the same category.

Emacs is more of an unbelivably editable lisp system to streamline your computing that happens to have a decent default editor.

A better critique would be lack of ability or safe routes, since many workarounds are needed to allow kids and those physically less able to get around by two wheels.

The vast majority of adults travel within 10km of their homes for most errands, which is definitely possible to hit with an analog bike. Ebikes can enable making double that distance easy.

That being said, even in actually rural areas where you are biking on a narrow shoulder with 50kph+ traffic next to you 20km each way in 0°C temps, many that don’t have other options still bike, so really it’s a preference for comfort/safety not lack of ability stopping most.

Bikes and retirement aside, I’d recommend knowledge - career skills, but also handiness skills. If you can do simple repairs like replacing a door, changing the flap on a toilet, painting, preventative stuff like changing your air filters, simple electronics (replacing a light switch), etc you’ll save thousands on repairs as a homeowner. Today there’s almost nothing that you can’t find an in depth video tutorial on, but if you really don’t feel comfortable with basic tools most community colleges have cheap classes as do some hardware stores. Volunteering, even just to help friends with their projects, can be an amazing way to learn too.