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  • Good discovery tools are essential on a federated platform. An important part of twitter, facebook, and reddit success is/was that that they were the place for their particular style of content. You had a pretty good chance of being able to discover your old high school friends, because they were on the one platform. Then the (early) algorithm started discovering for you all the obscure content similar to your history.

    Discovery has to work differently in a federated system. You can search for communities on Lemmy, but if your instance doesn’t already have someone subscribed to a community, then you’re not going to find it.







  • I hope he tries The Thing that finally gets domestic power to remove him. 25th amendment, impeach & remove, resign. Whatever. None of those seem particularly likely at this point.

    I very much hope he doesn’t ever get the opportunity to do The Thing that finally gets a foreign power to stop him. He’s had no consequences so far. Barely any meaningful resistance. It’s hard to imagine what someone with his brain damage thinks, but he doesn’t have any evidence that he can’t do whatever he wants, and it won’t be surprising if he tries.









  • tburkhol@lemmy.worldtoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldcorps
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    17 days ago

    Doesn’t matter. You still need some condition to trigger price changes. No grocery is going to change the price of bread based on the wheat futures market, because no consumer cares about wheat futures. Maybe they’d change based on their own inventory, but they can’t do that too quickly, or the price will change between the time customer picks up the product and the clerk rings it up.

    There’s a whole population of people who shop in advance - visit web sites, check the store fliers, whatever - to get the best price. If a shelf price doesn’t match their researched price, they’re never going to that store again.

    Aside from gas stations, grocery stores seem to have the most volatile pricing. They’re already making weekly changes on dozens of items, probably based on purchasing algorithms. Maybe that counts as retail “surge” pricing, but it’s not the dynamics that people fear when talking about digital price tags.