I know you know this and I don't necessarily think you need to talk about it in your videos. That's not really what your channel is about and it's fantastic as is. Just felt like I had to chime in as it's so easy for Canadians (myself included) to fall into this trap. We can and should be better.

Eh I feel like you're falling into the classic (unspoken) Canadian mentality of "it's worse in the US so therefore I don't need to think about it." A lot of Canadian zoning was explicitly racist and housing policy and every time I go back to Vancouver I hear some racist argument about housing.

Still waiting to find even one serious person who cares about "federation"

Actually my favorite might be the “this doesn’t help because capitalism still exists” group

I guess this doesn’t just apply to nimbys though, e.g. I was repeatedly called a liar on Twitter recently for saying that Boston has a garbage problem because apparently some neighborhoods don’t and people refuse to believe that other neighborhoods could be different from theirs

I’m a big fan of the “your life experience doesn’t perfectly match mine so therefore you must be lying” crew

Well anyway it’s Devonshire cream and then jam obvi

Needs more bike lane

How long have you lived in the UK?

All good things must come to an end

lily and starling say hello

yeah, I don't know. I like it as a quick lightweight way to say "hey I saw this. It's good" but I am not an expert here at all.

paul confirmed as lonely bird https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3jxyl6hfkfa2l

anyway, point is that even just a couple likes can make a huge difference to new users but platforms don't usually optimize for this. They're just trying to get you to stay on the site for as long as possible which means showing you the most engaging accounts (who don't need any more attention)

Yeah, it was 100% a "rich get richer" situation. Almost impossible to break through the noise as a new account. This is something it seems like tiktok has really done well (though I don't have an account for ✨reasons✨)

After working on the original ranked home timeline, I quit to go to grad school, but I came back a few years later and worked on a project called "Lonely Birds" where we tried to help out people who weren't getting much engagement. Sadly it go rolled into the larger HTL backlog and kinda disappeared