Tag: community
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On Dis-community – Play on Words
Reading Time: 4 minutesYesterday, spontaneously I joined a group for a ride to the Tour de France Femme via Strava. The day before that I meant one group via Meetup for a bike ride from Geneva, and a second via Strava for a run. The meetup group, to the best of my knowledge has no…
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On Algorithms and Impossible Conversations
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn the Fediverse you can follow everyone on an instance, or you can follow the people that you want to follow. Hypothetically you can follow key words, and with time follow more people, and eventually find a community. On Threads, BlueSky, X, Instagram and TikTok what you see is selected by algorithms,…
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On Community, Social Media, and the Failed Third Space
Reading Time: 4 minutesFrance and Belgium have recently banned children and teenagers younger than 15 from joining social media. To me this illustrates that my desire for social media to be social networks that were feature rich is dead and buried. In effect it has been dead and buried since Lockdown got normal people to…
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Décathlon as Social Network
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery few weeks I notice that Décathlon organise a run in Geneva, or Chavannes, or other places. Today I went for a five kilometre with this group and it made me think of Décathlon as a social network, rather than just a shop. What I mean by this is that we often…
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The Weekend Menu
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor this weekend, for Saturday’s course I have two relaxed, rides from Geneva, one or two moderate rides, and one peak and maybe one or two other rides to choose from. On the Nyon menu I have an 8am potential run, followed by a 10am group ride that throws in a healthy…
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On Extroverts and the Stifled Online Conversation
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I was considering joining someone’s Whatsapp Running Community until I heard the phrase “I am the only one that can write messages and I let people answer polls”. For me, as a netizen of the 90s web, this is a red flag. It is a red flag because if all you…
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The Morning Run to Breakfast With Cyclists
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I dropped off my bike for a service. I noticed that the rear wheel no longer seemed to be true so I took it to a bike shop. They confirmed that some of the bike spokes were about to fail. Due to this technical issue I left my bike with…
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A Quiet Whatsapp Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a year or more I was part of GoSocial, because I’m curious. The experimental community is based on Whatsapp group chats. There is “one” chat per city, whether Nyon, Bale, Lausanne and others. I was part of Lausanne and Geneva. The first thing that struck me is that the community uses…
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On WhatsApp and Netiquette
Reading Time: 3 minutesI was thinking of taking a break from Whatsapp for three weeks. I have this desire, and need because I am tired of how people use Whatsapp. They create groups, where strangers are added. People with no deep knowledge of online communities delete posts that are sometimes not spam. Other people complain…
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On Solitude, Cycling, and Whatsapp
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe more I use Whatsapp, in the Post pandemic age, the more toxic I find it. Last night I wrote something innocent. I wrote about rotisserie chicken and the temptation to have some before drinks. So far, so normal. Someone I never met, and never talked with, in person, put a crying…