Great post and I agree. Just roll with the inevitable cycle, keep contributing and just enjoy what is there for what it is in its time.
seirim
joined 1 year ago
Cool cool, yeah I dig it. Cycling can dip into geeking out on gear, which can be alright, but leads to consumerism, which can lead to snobbery. I think most bike snobs are well intentioned though, or are rather harmless in any case.
I definitely went down the rabbit hole when putting my bike together (and bikepacking requires a whole extra gear round) and was super focused on performance for a while, but these days just cruise. Lots of phases in one’s cycling journey!
Wow perfect, thank you!
Nice! What was xbiking about? I thought I had been subbed to all the cycling subreddits but had missed that one. My jam these days is bikepacking, I love the combo of biking far and camping. Glad you made this community!
Nice one, will sub!
You rock! Thanks :-)
Same, looking for those, will try to make some too
Given their recent posture and actions, I would think yes it could be an issue for you, for sure. You’d want to check their terms of service as it may violate them. If you’re doing this for fun, add a step in the middle and get ChatGPT to rephrase every post to obfuscate their source :-)
Kudos to you for exploring new ideas, but you have a lot of “hand waving away” of important details the other person Helix brought up, which are all significant and reasonable. I saw a lot of interesting points in your ideas though. Keep working on it! But you couldn’t depend on anyone else to do it, you’d need to see it through all the way.
Great ideas, sounds ideal to me
Darn, my schadenfreude was just getting warmed up…
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I think the lack of sense of community occurring from both the increased size of the group and how long it’s been around lead to folks taking it for granted as a resource rather than a personal space they’re invested and involved in.
I think the same thing happened to Reddit overall - it reached a mass of size and establishment whereby the owners/admins were disconnected to the personal, special aspect of it and took it and the people for granted.