Zermatt, in Switzerland, bans all private cars and all gasoline cars. But if you run a business, you might be able to buy one of the special, tiny ones that are built right there. ■ Zermatt: https://zermatt.ch ■ Stimbo: https://stimbo.ch/ Camera: Martin Bäbler Editor: Julian Domanski Local production by Viven https://viven.ch Thanks to Kevin Tedore for the suggestion Milk float clip licensed from Reuters via Pond5. I'm at https://tomscott.com on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott and on Instagram as tomscottgo
  • P1r4nha@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    I mean, it’s cool and all. As a Swiss citizen I’ve been there. But it’s a small village town living from tourists (who arrive by train).

    Definitely not a model for the world, but definitely something that places with slower life and simple traffic could adopt.

    • Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      What if they need to transport a load of bricks, or sand, or scaffolding?

      I imagine there are more than a few loopholes in the ‘no cars’ policy.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s no private car ownership. If you need a load of bricks, if delivery isn’t an option, a rental might be.

          • Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            Combine that with the fact that this town looks like it has a very slow life style, it wouldn’t be weird to have to wait a month or so for an order. Everyone probably knows each other and if there was an emergency, there would be someone nearby to help patch a roof, even if it was just throwing a tarp over it.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Nebula is amazing and I would highly encourage any urbanist to sign up for it. It’s only like $30 per year.

      • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        If they had anti clickbait policies, then maybe. Until then I look at their video feed in disgust and close the tab. I really don’t need a paid YouTube with all its garbage content.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I can’t say I disagree with you. The thumbnails and titles are sometimes a bit clickbaity. But they don’t let anyone join the site as a creator unless they have faith in the actual content of the videos. They’re creators who sometimes use clickbaity thumbnails because that’s just essential to surviving the YouTube algorithm, and the Nebula version usually just takes the same title and thumbnail from YouTube. But it’s never the sort of clickbait where a clickbaity thumbnail was used to trick you into watching actual garbage content—the content is always high quality.

          I wish they’d tone it down for the Nebula version, but that’s an extra amount of work for honestly very little extra value, so I understand why they don’t.

          • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
            1·
            1 year ago

            Fully agree. The videos especially are generally high quality regardless of how they’re dressed up, although i’ve found some creators use different thumbnails and video titles which gets confusing when trying to mark as watched in NewPipe afterwards

            This was pretty much my response to the user but didn’t feel like typing it out. Thanks for reading my mind 😁

          • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
            11·
            1 year ago

            They’re creators who sometimes use clickbaity thumbnails because that’s just essential to surviving the YouTube algorithm, and the Nebula version usually just takes the same title and thumbnail from YouTube.

            Oh. So they’re often just double dipping with the same content? That’s even worse.

            • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Huh? What are you talking about? Nebula has always been a place to see YouTube content ad-free, sometimes with bonus content or earlier than on YouTube. That’s like…its defining feature.

                • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Oh right. Yeah nah, it’s mostly YouTube videos without ads (preroll and midroll ads from YouTube, as well as sponsorship segments which are edited out). That’s the primary purpose of the site. On top of that, probably about 20% of videos have a bit of bonus content on Nebula ranging from a tiny segment of a few tens of seconds up to over 10 minutes. Then another roughly 20% of videos a released on Nebula first, often by 1 day, sometimes by over a month. Then finally there are the Nebula originals. These are funded by Nebula itself, many stay exclusive to Nebula for life, some eventually get released onto YouTube. There are podcasts too, like the Nebula-exclusive Jet Lag companion podcast The Layover, and Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes’ “The Urbanist Agenda” which is also available on public feeds (ad-supported, I assume—I’ve only ever listened to this one via Nebula).

                  If you subscribe to Nebula, you’re doing it for all of that, but also in part in the interest of supporting creators. It’s like Patreon in that respect, part of its value is the knowledge that you’re doing something to help fund the creation of the content you enjoy to a much greater degree than if you were watching ads at single-digit dollars per thousand impressions (and obviously far greater than if you were blocking ads).