ericjmorey @ ericjmorey @discuss.online

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Substack is newsletter focused, subscriptions are for individual substack writers' newsletters (you can't access all substack newsletters with a single subscription) and it has a recommendation feature that writers like because it can help them grow their subscribers and therefore grow their revenue.

Mastodon is not currently on the list

The problem I see with this idea is that I have no idea who most people are on "my" instance or what sort of content they're interested in. Even for a topic based instance like https://startrek.website/, outside of Star Trek, what are the chances that the interests of the members align?

The Lemmy developers were working on making user defined custom feeds. If that ever get implemented, I'd certainly give many ideas a try. But the Lemmy devs don't have any new feed options on their priority list and I doubt they will anytime soon.

The main dev (only dev?) of piefed seems much more likely to implement new ideas. For example, I had mentioned that only votes from a community's subscribers should be counted on posts to said community by default with the owner of the community given an option to count all votes. It was implemented within days.

LOL I should have reread that one.

The data is not centralized, but everyone is using the same aggravation aggregation service (indexer) to access the data.

No. All of your direct interactions are with your instance which federates with others.

Don't trust him based on his prior comments

I'm not a fan of Kagi's founder, so I generally don't use it.

Mojeek

From Amazon:

In 2023, FBA had been the preferred choice of 82% of Amazon sellers to deliver their products.

They dictate the operations of their suppliers. They force large expansions in capital investment and then decide that they don't want to renew the supplier relationship before the financing for the capital investments can be paid back. The only way suppliers can hope avoid this is to do what Walmart wants or constantly change their products in often superficial ways with branding agreements for IP of entertainment companies.

Amazon doesn’t handle shipping for a lot of the things they sell.

This is false. Very few products sold via Amazon are shipped independently from Amazon's logistics services.

no sketchy pricing based on bullwhip procurement.

Walmart's procurement has been abusive to their suppliers (who often go out of business because of their relationship with Walmart) for decades. I think you may need to reassess your perception of their procurement strategy.

You don't seem to understand the retail operations of Amazon. They provide logistics and marketing services to retailers, they also directly compete against those retailers because those retailers can't do better at logistics and marketing without using Amazon's services.

I honestly don't think federated architecture is valuable for a chat room service.

If matrix wasn't so poorly implemented, I'd recommend it.

I dove in to the deepend and found Matrix to be underwhelming and that's probably generous.

Thanks for the link.

Why not promote piefed?

People here are satisfied with using the ActivityPub services and content with slow growth of a now sustainable but relatively small user group.

The people who want to use bsky just want a better Twitter. And bsky has delivered that. If that's temporary, it's better for them to use it while it lasts because Mastodon is absolutely not what those people using bsky want. Mastodon to them is technically worse than Twitter but something they may settle for if bsky wasn't an option.