We overlay the highway network with a massive, geolocated online social network (Twitter 2012), and measure how social ties are impacted by highway segments. We find a strong barrier effect in all 50 considered US cities. See below - the red squares show that this effect is stronger for short distances.
After 1+ year of being #mastoAdmin, the one thing that would boost onboarding/retention of new members the most is an automated welcome message to every account right after sign-up, containing a short "get started" list like this: https://fedi.tips/ If this was a feature, it should actually be turned on by default on new servers - that would help so much.
Given it is not (yet?) a feature of mastodon, has anybody tried to implement a bot for this? Or has tips for how one could build one?
@alex Also curious about the history. In any case, this is an interesting "infographic" that I show my students to make them aware of different concepts of "nothing" and "something"
Interesting points: “Rather than climate anxiety, we should be calling it politician anxiety or people anxiety, because it’s the people in power who are failing to do the right thing whilst lying to us, or doing the opposite”
“same as the narratives around child abuse. The very people who are supposed to protect you are the people who are hurting you. And not only are they hurting you, they’re telling you that they love you and they’re doing it for your own good.”
BikeDNA is a :jupyter: :python: Python-based tool for assessing the quality of #OpenStreetMap and other bike infrastructure data sets in a reproducible way. It provides planners, researchers, data maintainers, cycling advocates, a detailed, informed overview of data quality in a given area. https://github.com/anerv/BikeDNA
Since opening registrations in Jan with 50 members we have doubled in size, following a nice pace of growth. We are now also steadily posting over 100 new posts/week.