AchtungDrempels

AchtungDrempels , 9 days ago to Solarpunk Travel in Margate to Marrakech: A flight-free holiday to Morocco

Hmm. No words about how she got back home after her sponsored cycle holidays in morrocco. Probably would have spoiled the story.

AchtungDrempels , 11 days ago to Fediverse in To give perspective on the 48k monthly active users on Lemmy, and the 4.5k on kbin+mbin, Discuit has 6787 registered users

If this is what the lemmyverse wants for its future, i am definitely wrong here.

AchtungDrempels , 11 days ago to Ask Lemmy in Have you ever been punched in the face as an adult? What's the story?

No. And it was really also only one good sucker punch, so definitely could have come worse. What messed me up mentally too was that it happened like 200m from my appartment.

AchtungDrempels , 11 days ago to Ask Lemmy in Have you ever been punched in the face as an adult? What's the story?

I got jumped out of nowhere by two guys on my way home in the night. It sucked. Couldn't get it out of my mind for the next six months or so.

AchtungDrempels , 12 days ago to Ask Lemmy in What do you think of birdwatchers and birdwatching ?

Very friendly community, one of my favorites on lemmy.

AchtungDrempels , 12 days ago to Ask Lemmy in What do you think of birdwatchers and birdwatching ?

Haha. I started feeding birds on my balcony this winter and i love it.

I don't go out to watch birds (yet), but i love checking what's up with the birds in the garden, know pretty much all of them, learning their songs etc.

Also now on vacation i am way more tuned into what the birds are doing than i used to be, kinda opened another audible dimension.

AchtungDrempels , 17 days ago to Fedigrow in [Discussion thread] How are you all guys doing on your niche communities?

Oh it's my lemmyversary, thanks. Where's my cake i can't see it. Do you see a cake?

AchtungDrempels , 17 days ago to Fedigrow in [Discussion thread] How are you all guys doing on your niche communities?

It was this chat in the solarpunk travel community that made me go all homer simpson back into the hedge.

https://slrpnk.net/post/6493902

AchtungDrempels , 17 days ago to Fedigrow in [Discussion thread] How are you all guys doing on your niche communities?

To be completely honest, i am a bit turned off how slrpnk's take on niche communities appears to be. They seem to care not much about the topic, but how and where communities are hosted. They don't link to the bicycle touring community because it's on .world, not to camping because it's on sh.itjust.works etc, as these instances (and many others) are "not part of the free world" and opressors. This is not how you grow the fediverse, i believe.

AchtungDrempels , 18 days ago to Fedigrow in [Discussion thread] How are you all guys doing on your niche communities?

I like the houseplants stuff. I will add something useful to the bicycletouring sidebar too.

AchtungDrempels , 18 days ago to Fedigrow in [Discussion thread] How are you all guys doing on your niche communities?

Yeah it is a niche activity, sure.

!camping
!outdoors
!ultralight
!solarpunktravel
!outdoor

Camping i think theoretically has some actual users, the solarpunkers seem to mostly repost stuff, not do or plan to do something. I don't think consolidation will do much.

AchtungDrempels , 18 days ago to Fedigrow in [Discussion thread] How are you all guys doing on your niche communities?

Kinda happy how at the start of the season !bicycle_touring got a bit of traffic. But i'm not all that hopeful really because the regular bicycling subs with way more subscribers have also very little traffic. I sometimes wonder if all that even makes sense here if it isn't about computers, memes or politics.

The camping, ultralight, outdoor communities are pretty much just dead.

AchtungDrempels , 18 days ago to Solarpunk Travel in Can a flight be ok to do for "holidays"?

Alright that sounds cool and there is something to it, showing presence in the trains with a bike, although when it's the season they're all booked out here. This usually doesn't work when i don't 100% know when i finish (and where) way in advance (unless i do the whole dismantling / packing deal).

You say it's a plan, so you have not started doing this and took your last plane like yesterday, right :)

AchtungDrempels , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to Asklemmy in When was the last time you bought a paper map and why ?

Bought one about two weeks ago. Usually i like having a paper map on my cycling trips, but on long ones it's getting too many maps, so i didn't bring any. Then i met some italians with a map and next day i bought one myself. I think it's much better to see where you are at and how you move than on a phone.

Also kinda like the "scenic routes" marker in the michelin maps (although that's also on their online maps). It was a midi pyrenees map, but i have already ridden out of it, going to send it home.

AchtungDrempels , 19 days ago to Asklemmy in Summer is the worst season of the year, isn't?

Love summer. Love all the seasons, but would be nice if summer was one, two months longer and winter shorter.