Phil (ascentale)
@pete asks about coordinating rides:
Q3. How do you communicate with your riding buddies/groups/orgs? I’m happy in my little Mastodon world, and have no interest in engaging in anything Meta, Musk, or platforms setting up to go that way (i.e BlueSky). I know I miss out on cycling goings on as a result of this and do struggle with that at times: principles over pragmatism?
Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏
@pete I wondered about that—seem this eve I saw a Mastodon post about RSS feeds, saying they can’t be done with Meta or bird site but can with a Mastodon stream. (With these limited searches on Mastodon, can’t seem to find that again, and didn’t bookmark it.) But an RSS might be a sufficient solution.
Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏
@rasterweb @ascentale @pete #BikeNite A3 Sadly, many bike events in our county are only announced on Instagram/Meta. We’re making tough decisions on how or whether to continue sharing many local events. We have an IG acct but often don’t log in for weeks/mos & are even less inclined now. Yrs ago we put many hrs into hosting countywide Google calendar (yeah, not thrilled with that giant either) & the major local bike orgs fed their calendars into it. Tried to get, e.g., county’s transport agency to post their own bike mtgs & events either there or on their own site’s calendar, but despite “community outreach” requirements, they didn’t get a round tuit. Our 35 -section directory's index has many recurring events, and we used to keep dates current there. It took much research&maintenance; we now leave it to folks to track em on their own. This is a gap in our work now, but as we’ve put well over 22K all-unpaid hours into bike advocacy, most calendar work had to slide. :( Subscriber news often still incl some.)
Pete Prodoehl 🍕
@bikemonterey @ascentale @pete Frustrating! At least for the Instagram announced one you just need to hit the page and it's the first bit of text you see. I started writing code to grab it so I can do a diff to see if the text changes and alert me...
I met a guy who complained about a group that had an RSS feed and I said "That would be a dream!" because you can do *so much* with a simple RSS feed...
Pete Prodoehl 🍕
@ascentale @pete I take part in one monthly group ride and you need to check their Instagram account to see if it's happening or canceled or rescheduled and there's no other way...
And sometimes part of the group stars from a different location (near my house) but you might not know that until the night before so... ? ? ?
The way it's organized is not ideal (for me) but the group itself is great.
Bob Jonkman
In particular, on my server the RSS feed for #Bikenite is
https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bikenite.rss
You may want to put your own server domain name in place of 'mastodon.sdf.org' Because of the peculiarities of federated messaging, there's no guarantee that all #BikeNite messages are on every server. Instances with more people tend to receive more messages than smaller instances. That's why group messaging like @bikenite exist.
#BikeNite A3
Bob Jonkman
#BikeNite A3: I heard about the @cyclewr group rides from their e-mail newsletter. Unfortunately, that's one-way, individuals can't e-mail the group.
Several people who ride in the #Kitchener Sunday rides are here in the #Fediverse, but don't post much about the rides. The exception is @TrueCommunities (Hi!)
#CriticalMass used to have a website listing ride times and locations around the world (including #WaterlooRegion, but I don't know if that still exists.
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