Please just make that clearer in the description next time to perhaps spare people, who don’t know these facts and have never head about Jason or Nebula before, unnecessary clicks.
We’re in the Not Just Bikes community. It’s reasonable to assume people here are familiar with Not Just Bikes, or are at least willing to get themselves caught up.
Well, I tried my best. Read the community info and all.
It contains strict policies against spamming and also low-effort posts.
And a post only consisting of just a link to a paid website would be considered both, meaning low-effort spam, by most people.
So please excuse my confusion. I think it should be understandable.
It’s reasonable to assume people here are familiar with Not Just Bikes
You know, there are feeds which just show popular posts. Most of the communities in this feed people would be unfamiliar with if they browsed all/popular.
Sure, but most people don’t come into a community they’re unfamiliar with and start whinging about posts that are direct links to something created by the subject the community is dedicated to.
Following the title of the community and its description, I (and apparently other people as well) got the distinct impression this subject to be “alternative urban mobility”.
I now understand that it is a fan-community for some bike-influencer instead?
This came as somewhat of a surprise, as there are no obvious indications for it.
What gatekeeping? All I’m saying is people shouldn’t come to a Not Just Bikes community and complain about links to a platform co-owned by Not Just Bikes. That’s the equivalent of going to !politics and complaining about a link to political news.
Not Just Bikes is the name of a YouTube channel run by Jason Slaughter, focused on good urbanism. It takes its name from the thesis: “what makes cities in the Netherlands so much better than most of the rest of the developed world (but especially Canada and America)? It’s not just bikes.” In essence, it’s about urbanism in all forms. Bikes, yes, but also public transport, density, land use, etc.
The second part is finally a very good example for a reply that is not gatekeeping but actually helpful.
Would perhaps be a good idea to have that exact paragraph be put at the top of the community description.
And regarding the first part:
If stumbling across a post linking to inaccessible content in any community:
Instant reaction will always be leaving a “Paywalled” or similar comment.
That’s just basic netiquette to inform other users and give the OP a hint that he might want to do something about it.
I keep forgetting that Lemmy has communities rather than just one big feed. Every time I’ve found a community I liked, it turned out the post that drew me to it was the only one there for the next several months.
Yes…it’s Nebula… The streaming platform co-owned by Jason which he uploads his videos to before they make it to YouTube.
Understood.
Please just make that clearer in the description next time to perhaps spare people, who don’t know these facts and have never head about Jason or Nebula before, unnecessary clicks.
We’re in the Not Just Bikes community. It’s reasonable to assume people here are familiar with Not Just Bikes, or are at least willing to get themselves caught up.
Well, I tried my best. Read the community info and all.
It contains strict policies against spamming and also low-effort posts.
And a post only consisting of just a link to a paid website would be considered both, meaning low-effort spam, by most people.
So please excuse my confusion. I think it should be understandable.
Your confusion is reasonable. Coming in and whinging about it when you yourself knew you didn’t know the context is not reasonable.
How about mentioning in the sidebar nebula, who owns it and that it’s paywalled?
You know, there are feeds which just show popular posts. Most of the communities in this feed people would be unfamiliar with if they browsed all/popular.
Sure, but most people don’t come into a community they’re unfamiliar with and start whinging about posts that are direct links to something created by the subject the community is dedicated to.
Saying a video is paywalled isn’t whinging, but hey, you do you
Maybe, but “next time make it clear so I don’t waste unnecessary time clicking links” certainly is.
Following the title of the community and its description, I (and apparently other people as well) got the distinct impression this subject to be “alternative urban mobility”.
I now understand that it is a fan-community for some bike-influencer instead?
This came as somewhat of a surprise, as there are no obvious indications for it.
And, btw, the gatekeeping didn’t help.
What gatekeeping? All I’m saying is people shouldn’t come to a Not Just Bikes community and complain about links to a platform co-owned by Not Just Bikes. That’s the equivalent of going to !politics and complaining about a link to political news.
Not Just Bikes is the name of a YouTube channel run by Jason Slaughter, focused on good urbanism. It takes its name from the thesis: “what makes cities in the Netherlands so much better than most of the rest of the developed world (but especially Canada and America)? It’s not just bikes.” In essence, it’s about urbanism in all forms. Bikes, yes, but also public transport, density, land use, etc.
Thanks.
The second part is finally a very good example for a reply that is not gatekeeping but actually helpful.
Would perhaps be a good idea to have that exact paragraph be put at the top of the community description.
And regarding the first part:
If stumbling across a post linking to inaccessible content in any community:
Instant reaction will always be leaving a “Paywalled” or similar comment.
That’s just basic netiquette to inform other users and give the OP a hint that he might want to do something about it.
Hi! Here because this is somewhat popular.
Immediately turned off when the main point of the post is paywalled.
Would love to see this, but all it’s done is make me blacklist your sub-whatever.
Bye!
You should have replied to OP, but yeah, I agree
This may turn up on peoples’ front page. Adding this information isn’t a huge effort.
I keep forgetting that Lemmy has communities rather than just one big feed. Every time I’ve found a community I liked, it turned out the post that drew me to it was the only one there for the next several months.