Proud to see #PortAlberni mentioned in a positive light! We're an old company town, mostly single detached residential.Densification is happening (including in my neighbourhood) but the biggest examples have been taking over former school properties that closed decades ago. The next step will be for the City to start making it easier for developers to buy a block of residential homes and densify. We need an OCP!#Housing #Affordabilityhttps://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6619884

@chris stopped travelling to the US after Trump's first election in 2016. My perceptions of Florida really plummeted with their actions during the pandemic and the election of a christo-fascist governor. Can't take my $ there. Haven't been back and no plans to.Somewhat new is avoiding US products. Now trying harder to avoid US online services. The tariffs on good should take care of the rest.

Wwwaaayyy ahead of you Dave m’Boy. Way ahead of ya.#nousa #canada #usa #travelhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rethink-u-s-travel-premier-says-1.7437593

More big news/upheaval in the local radio space. Reports are coming in that CKNW AM980, a stalwart news radio station in Vancouver, is moving frequencies to AM730.This website is reporting it: https://radioinsight.com/headlines/292809/cknw-to-move-from-980-to-730/I haven't listened to CKNW this morning. If anyone can confirm if they have said anything there? There is nothing on the CKNW website.#BCPoli #BCNews #CKNW #Radio #Media

Thought related to this story about the demise of AM730 radio station.I wonder if there is a way where a hashtag like #YVRDrives could exist so that the feed was announced audibly.Every new post in the feed announced in someone's notifications? Could it work as a replacement or augmentation to traffic radio stations or would it just be too chaotic?#BCPoli #YVRhttps://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-traffic-radio-station?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Added another custom emoji for the instance!Snuneymuxw lives in and around the area known as Nanaimo. www.snuneymuxw.ca#SocialBC #BCEmoji

#Threads #SocialBCWhen @PhotographyElf @arbutus @jrenken and the rest of us started the idea of this server back in September, I admit I was probably the most willing to look past worries about Threads.@zuck @mosseri policy changes have made this untenable.As a team we believe we should block Threads.net for the health and safety of current and future SocialBC users.However, we want to give SocialBC members time to comment and talk about it.We’ll block it starting 9AM PST Monday.#Meta

Morning #SocialBC folks! If you would like to follow some fun and useful hashtags, just click these below. It’ll help fill your timeline and get you acquainted with some of the quirky tendencies of Mastodon.BC Specific:#bcpoli#bcstorm#bcmuni#SocialBCGeneral Mastodon fun:#introduction#firstpost#monsterdon#bloomscrolling#mosstodon#hnom#pollodon#fediverseDay specific#mondog#tuesdog #tuesdaytoolsday#wellnesswednesday#thicktrunkthursday#fensterfreitag#caturday#SilentSunday

#cišaaʔatḥ #tseshaht Elder Tom Watts turns 90 this month. He's a basketball star. He was the only Indigenous player on the 1965 ADSS team that won the Canadian Men's Basketball Championship.If you want a great story about basketball, family, hard work, love, racism, indian residential schools, perseverance, kindness, and respect, here it is:https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-01-16/basketball-family-affair-great-tseshaht-athlete-tom-watts-and-his-grandkids#PortAlberni #Basketball #Canada #BC #Indigenous #Reconciliation #TotemTournament

New CBC local reporters! Yes!! Fraser Valley #chilliwack #Abbotsford North Island #Courtenay #Comox #CampbellRiverInterior East #SalmonArm #Armstrong Peace Region: #FortStJohn #Chetwynd #Penticton: #Osoyoos #SummerlandSea to Sky #Squamish #Whistler #Pemberton #bcpoli #bcnewshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/editor-s-blog-local-news-cbc-hires-1.7430811

We’re on Day 30 of our $2500 SocialBC Launch Fundraiser to propel us through the next year! People have been so generous! #PleaseBoost and Donate.Any amount will make a difference!Now that we're seeing a bunch of new people come to #SocialBC we'll need those funds to make sure everything keeps running smoothly as more join.Thank you! ️️https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NYQ8LSFB5GP6N#Donate #Fediverse #Mastodon

Got a wonderful little flurry of 20 new accounts from the CBC radio interview! That doubles the number of people that have signed up since January 1st.We'll keep promoting. There is definitely demand for it. It's just a matter of getting the word out to people so they know that we exist! #SocialBC #BCPoli

I will also try to mention our launch fundraiser! We will be extending it today so we can reach our $2500 goal! It’d be pretty great if we had donations coming in this morning!If we get a surge of interest from the interview we might need your donations quickly! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NYQ8LSFB5GP6N #socialbc #opensocialweb #fediverse

Interview with CBC Radio Victoria set for 8:10AM tomorrow! #SocialBC#BCPoli #TwitterMigration #OpenSocialWeb

Christy no more.#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #LiberalPartyofCanada

Elon hasn't noticed the @ joinsocialbc account yet on his platform. 🤫🤫Have to keep these things under wraps a little bit. There seems to be a history of the Big Corporate Social Media folks seeing us little-old-free-open-web-standard social media as a threat? Go @dansup!!#GoPixelfed #InstaMigration #OpenSocialWeb #TwitterMigration https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/

Today's recruitment post on X! If you're still over there, give us a boost!https://x.com/JoinSocialBC/status/1878840724214657153 #Mastodon #Fediverse #TwitterMigration #DumpMusk #OpenSocialWeb

A good article from @evan and the social web foundation on Threads/Meta and speaks on some implications and strategies for #Fediverse admins.“We strongly encourage Meta’s executive and content teams to come back in line with best practices of a zero harm social media ecosystem. Reconsidering this policy change would preserve the crucial distinction between political differences of opinion and dehumanizing harassment.”https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/12/content-policy-on-the-social-web/#threads #meta #moderation

This weekend in #portAlberni was the Totem basketball Tournament. It was the 69th edition! As the shirts said this year: “It’s kind of a big deal!”.We sat beside the pep-band. Really should have brought ear plugs. I didn’t actually take any basketball photos, sorry. #basketball #local #community #highschool #adss

As an example, the popular mastodon hosting service that hosts SocialBC does not allow custom configuration of the mastodon code. So the character limit is not able to be changed for anyone using the service.Mastodon has already effectively chosen to make it *possible* to change the character limit. What I ask for your support here is for that choice to be extended to any owner of a mastodon instance.Thank you for voting yes!#fediverse #mastodon #choice #admin #pollhttps://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/113816554232616498