So, there's apparently a free #bicycle #repair thing going on at #VictoriaPark today, but it's currently 29°C out, so I don't know if I'll be up for biking out there today. There's a reason @Katy Lamothe and I have been biking at night. #KWAwesome
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It's been brought to my attention that while #BuyNothing groups are pretty useful, they tend to exist mainly on Facebook. It'd be nice to have such a group for #WaterlooRegion here on the fedi as well.
I'd be happy to set one up, but if there's one that already exists, I'd rather use that than start from scratch. Is anyone aware of such a group here?
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we've got a (so far) small signal group just to chat local stuff, buy nothing could definitely be a part of that. DM me if want a link.
@Valerie Roney I really should get on Signal. Does it play well with RCS messaging?
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I am not the nerd to answer that question but boosted this so hopefully somebody can.
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@Valerie Roney It looks like I can install it without interfering with my existing SMS app. That was not the case when I first looked at it. I'll probably set it up when I can get around to it.
@vlrny As far as I know, Signal only does their encrypted messages. They used to do SMS as well (before RCS) but removed it to avoid confusion between which messages were encrypted and which weren't.
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I don't know that region, but I would definitely be interested in a worldwide Fediverse group like that! And one for my own region, if possible.
@Quasit I thought about a global one, but worried it'd be a bit of a firehose with no real way of filtering.
It seems to me that at current scale, we're unlikely to see a worldwide community on Mastodon that's overwhelming. And by the time such a community WOULD become overwhelming, I'd expect sub-groups to form - probably linked to the worldwide forum to allow users to select which areas they'd want to subscribe to.
Or maybe that should be a Lemmy thing. I don't know.
I'm not aware of any sort of local group at all in the fediverse. Except maybe @waterlooregion. Maybe lemmy.ca/c/waterloo_region
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@Darcy Casselman Hmm... Friendica doesn't seem to want to let me follow this group. I wonder if there's a bug in the way their server is implementing ActivityPub that Friendica doesn't like. (This would not be unprecedented.)
I can follow @waterloo_region. (Probably should've done that already, but it's not terribly busy over there...)
Then again, it looks like I just submitted a follow request. Which isn't really what I'd expect from reddit-style communities on fedi...
@Darcy Casselman Yeah, I'm just getting an error. 🙁
@Court I did not know this. Does it still use Facebook as a backend?
@Court Also, now I wonder of setting up a group would open me up to trademark issues. I suppose I could pick a different name that conveys the same idea.
I’m really not sure. I had looked into it but I think I didn’t install it because I didn’t like the required permissions. Or maybe my hood wasn’t on there yet? I can’t recall. My neighbourhood one is still one Facebook and it’s probably what I miss most about facebook tbh
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Have you checked if there's a Freecycle.org chapter?
@pockets I had not heard of it. Looking into it now. Thanks!
@pockets It seems the answer to this question is yes! 😀
Another thing that was brought to my attention is freecycle.org. I don't know much about them yet, but they exist and seem to offer a similar type of service here.
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I participated in Freecycle for many years. It's quite legitimate. It doesn't get the attention it deserves.
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you can instantly create a group by searching for @yourGroupName@ovo.st, like so: @BuyNothingWaterloo
@Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™ Yeah, setting up a group us easy. I just didn't want to duplicate an existing one I didn't know about.
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FWIW, while I’m not what a # BuyNothing group talks about, the local KW Techs Slack team has a # buylocalandcanadian channel that has great recommendations for local and more-broadly Canadian products, and is focused mainly on independent businesses. It's a great resource, though obviously not fediverse.
Also FWIW, I’d love to see something similar here.
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did you set one up? If so, what did you use?
@Chewie I was going to, but then I was directed to freecycle.org. It's not on the fedi, but not Facebook-based either, and is reasonably active in my community.
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Did anyone else in the #KWAwesome area who is with Freedom Mobile notice a data outage today? It seems fine now but I'm curious.
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