Since I joined Lemmy a couple months back, one of the ideas I saw mentioned by the Lemmy people for blogging is this: start a Community and make yourself the only poster. You can invite people to be co-posters.
Yes, it has the limits of Lemmy posting. No making your own HTML or fancy backgrounds. But so far as -text- is concerned, the sky's the limit.
Saves me the bother and time of visiting many sites on a regular basis to see what's new. RSS is delivered to me.
By choosing what I sign up for, I know what I think I'm going to get and will soon unsubscribe if not. If so I miss nothing. Same reason people prefer purchases of things they know they want to be delivered to them. THAT'S "modern times" to me! You only drive to the store if there's a reason to.
Each day I look at websites that show me multiple headlines that they have gathered from many sites. I've picked them out over a few years, no visual ads on any of them. I
'm scanning only titles/headlines (skipping the obvious product pushes). If a site has a few interesting ones, great ... else move on. On 'nothing days', I'm done soon!
MANY products have seen slow shrinkage over the last decade. 16>13 oz. chip bags, 13 cookies instead 16 ....
That candy bar that used to be 3" across is now 2.5 " across? Result: 2/3 of the surface area = 50% more profit.
The price stays the same and they hope you don't notice how much less you're getting.
Another side of this is the drop in the quality of ingredients.
I ... don't get it. What is the purpose of a tax writeoff? Suppose it saves them money this year. But they lose a much larger profit. Is it being saved for later when their fortunes are lower?
Some years back, we made a trip to make/selling some simple food at a weekend street-fair (travelling to a bigger town about 100 miles away). One item only but with several ingredients ... non-cheap, fresh , high-quality. Two people, cleared (in today's dollars) about $1000 in two afternoons.
It was different from what other vendors were selling, simple, $2 a shot, great-tasting.
That 1909 story came up with the -same- conclusion ... complete dependence (with the machine enforcing it). Except, in the story, the Repair machine is malfunctioning.
Speaking of which - the other day I found this video, which might be useful to both those who've read it (or don't have the time). Besides an analysis, it includes some fine SF artwork.
kalkulat @ kalkulat @lemmy.world Posts 55Comments 366Joined 2 yr. ago
Since I joined Lemmy a couple months back, one of the ideas I saw mentioned by the Lemmy people for blogging is this: start a Community and make yourself the only poster. You can invite people to be co-posters.
Yes, it has the limits of Lemmy posting. No making your own HTML or fancy backgrounds. But so far as -text- is concerned, the sky's the limit.