Bill’s brings the people together! It’s one of the only places you’ll see a brand new Mercedes parked next to a beat up 1990 Mercury Sable.

Same here. It’s definitely on my shortlist for the next couple of weeks.

Super ready for this place to open up!

Summary:

Mastodon — all the privacy

Twitter — pretty bad privacy

Threads — we know everything about you

Super cool idea, and it’s only in Ann Arbor for now!

Hopefully the service works out for the caregivers and those needing care so that it can expand to more areas in the future.

Nice! Subscribed.

Disgusting… hope they catch this guy quickly.

I need to work through the coffee shops on this list, but I can say one thing for certain! Sweetwaters’ Dreamy and Dirty cold brews are delicious.

Currently reading The Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb. It’s a good read so far!

Hey there, Welcome! I check in on that community as well – they’re doing a great job.

I wasn’t able to find any A2 communities before I started this one, but the community search tools were archaic back then. We’re talking ancient history in “Lemmy time” – nearly a month ago lol.

Thanks for stopping by… hopefully we can create vibrant alternatives to /r/annarbor.

This is important given the recently highlighted racial disparity in traffic stops.

The police can still mail tickets, if appropriate. No need to stop anyone for something minor.

After reading this, I’m thankful that the city is moving towards not pulling drivers over for these infractions.

What’s an instance?

An instance is a specific website running Lemmy or another piece of federated software. For example, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml are two distinct instances

What’s a community?

A community is the “sub-reddit” of Lemmy. Kbin uses the word “magazines”, but these are the same thing.

What are federations?

A federation is a group of instances sharing posts and activity data with each other so that it can be displayed to their respective end users. For example, I can post to a community on lemmy.world and then you will be able to see my post when you are browsing feddit.de.

Whats the difference between all these?

Let me know if you have additional questions based on my answers above.

What’s mastodon?

Mastodon is a piece of federated software that is built to look and feel like Twitter, similar to how Lemmy is built to look and feel like Reddit.

What’s Kbin?

Kbin.social is a website you can use to browse posts from the Fediverse. From what I understand, it is similar to Reddit as well.

What’s ActivityPub?

ActivityPub is the underlying protocol that Lemmy, Mastodon, and other pieces of federated software use to communicate with each other. This is how they notify each other of new posts, comments, upvotes, etc so they can stay in sync with each other.

Nice! This looks like a ton of fun. And $4 Dole whip from Cinnaholic too!

It’s dangerous for my wallet when I end up in Cinnaholic though 😀

I’m no expert on wine so this all seems very subjective to me, but I’m guessing others understand it better than I do!

Thanks for the link. I only recently became aware of the dioxane plume, so this was a good way to get up to speed.

My allergies have been wild this summer… the smoke is really doing a number on me.

Hopefully Canada gets the rain they need to tamp the fires down.

Man, 35 is too young to go! My thoughts go out to his family.

Me too! I have entirely broken my Reddit habit since they announced the changes. It was probably a blessing in disguise for me – I’m much happier here.

Thanks for joining and contributing! We can make this place a great replacement for /r/annarbor.

Unfortunately, I’m not well-versed on the live music scene around town and don’t have any recommendations, but I’m commenting to follow this thread!