ericjmorey @ ericjmorey @discuss.online

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I also am not a fan of the topic grouping feature but it seems that most people on piefed love it.

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.

Thanks

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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.

They're going to events and taking nice pictures and releasing them to the public domain.

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.

That's the result of referring to Lemmy as a service instead of Lemmy as a project. It was cleared up when people stopped doing that.

Seems the confusion was the many people referring to Lemmy the project as Lemmy the service. And it was cleared up when the discussion moved to instance as the service and apps for the service.

I think this is a great illustration of my point. I like the culture beehaw.org has established more than what lemmy.blahaj.zone has encouraged. And I don't particularly care about "the fediverse". I care about the online communities I engage with.

Everyone is different and I make my recommendation based on what I think the person I'm making recommendations to would like most.

I generally don't. I don't find it to be a useful grouping to reference or discuss.

Try piefed.social
Try Discuss.online
Try beehaw.org
Try programming.dev
I'm always referring to one, never the group.

Of what benefit is this for a bank? Why would they choose to offer it?

Post on the one with the most recent post.

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.

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.

Since when was Bezos liberal?

Not legally, but it seems that he has the ability to stop payments from a techical perspective. The government has put employees on furlough before, but never during a time when money was appropriated by Congress. I would predict that it will cost much more in the longer run to simply shut down payments illegally than to go through Congress. I fear that Congress is on board with removing appropriated funds for no other reason than tribal loyalty to the leader of the cult of personality.