Solarpunk travel is intended for /sustainable/ travel, right? So where can we discuss travel with no sustainability relevance? I only consider proper decentralized non-Cloudflare instances. This is what found as free world venues for travel chatter:
- !solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net ← sustainable travel focus
- !traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus
- !travel@eviltoast.org
- https://lemmy.globe.pub ← whole instance devoted to travel (⚠but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule)
The places other than !solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net are ghost towns but that’s nothing that can’t be fixed with a bit of cross-posting. I suggest putting them in the sidebar as related communities.
Bicycle touring is relevant but indeed lemmy.world is antithetical to fedi philosophy and purpose so I wouldn’t want to promote it on the sidebar. #LemmyWorld has a group for everything and needs no promotion. They replicate communities in the free world, effectively poaching from better places.
No; feel free to crosspost either way.
My personal approach is to post initially in the most relevant free world decentralized community first, creating a new community if necessary. If the post contains a question that’s starving for answers after some time, then I might cross post to centralized places¹ in part to promote the better venue to those in places of oppression… to try to steer people toward a more ethical workflow.
Some instances only show the parent of a cross post, while other instances show both parents and children in a cross posting scenario. This is why I favor the digital rights respecting community for the initial post.
① e.g. lemmy world, sh.itjust·works, lemm·ee, lemmy·ca, programming·dev, and lemmy.ml.
I don’t think there are any other bicycle touring / bikepacking communities on other instances. Also it was created by a user, not “by them”. I am a moderator of that community (but i didn’t create it), i have a lemmy.world account too. I ended up on world because they accepted people when many instances didn’t and i didn’t want to sign up to an instance that may be run on somebody’s raspberrypi and would be turned off in a week or something. It was hard to tell what was what, being new to lemmy.
Personally i would be down, moving the community to another instance, but i am not the creator of it. I think i will propose a move in the future to see what the people think, but i also won’t be mad if people don’t want to move, i am personally more interested in getting niche communities to take off on the fediverse in general, and lemmy.world is part of that.