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   Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 20:28:38 JST Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱

   This graphic illustrates a major problem I have making videos:

   The last street is still absolute garbage. There isn't even public transit.

   The US (⅓ of my audience) is so far behind in city design that this is all they can reasonably hope for.

   Meanwhile the rest of my audience is starting from the last street and trying to build something better.

   It's like if I had a maths channel and wanted to talk about calculus, but ⅓ of my audience was still debating if multiplication actually works.

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:, clacke and snacks like this.
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     Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 22:53:32 JST Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱

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     • Götz Hoffart

     @goetz the problem is that I've made those videos already but the way the YouTube algorithm works, nobody sees those videos. They only see the new ones.

     So to on-board new Americans, I would need to dumb-down every single video with a bunch of concept that would be absurd to Europeans.

     For example, many American suburbs and towns have no public transit. I don't mean "bad" transit, I mean literally none.

     I cannot bridge that gap in every video without turning away the other ⅔ of my audience.

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     Götz Hoffart (goetz@freiburg.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 22:53:33 JST Götz Hoffart

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     @notjustbikes I understand that you were writing about the 1/3 that is far behind. I wanted to reference to that point and say that there is a path for these, too, but no accelerated one. Hey, I live in Freiburg … that’s thankfully at the lower part of the image. But still not good.

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     Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 22:53:35 JST Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱

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     • Götz Hoffart

     @goetz you missed the point. ⅔ of my audience is at the end of this graphic.

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     Götz Hoffart (goetz@freiburg.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 22:53:36 JST Götz Hoffart

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     @notjustbikes As »Beau of the fifth column« put it: you have to start where your audience is. You can’t jump start or skip. You won’t alter views over night.

     Or, as my former manager Giles said wisely: You have to work with what you have.