Yeah, I could see the financial value dropping, with businesses less willing to pay as much for harvested data, but I don’t see a point in time where they don’t attempt harvest every last piece of data on the off chance somebody wants it though. Advertisers paid insane amounts of money for targeted information, but even Google’s seen a huge contraction in their advertising revenue.

Doesn’t mean they aren’t frantically trying to harvest data more aggressively (just recently tried to bake it into the internet itself), just that our data is getting cheaper.

Maybe someone who hoped for a more negative Friday morning? 🤔

“Finally, some good fucking news.”

I mean, if you view clowns as the opposite alignment of goths, in theory big tiddy clown gfs should be just as viable.

Two to hold down the giant bird that still vaguely remembers being a dinosaur, and one to get eviscerated by it’s angry feet when it kicks behind lol.

Pretty sure they just added a bunch of pixels to the side, the rest should still be untouched. Well, as untouched as it ever is.

Sure, but that’s something for reddit users to do. There are 63k active Lemmy users monthly, and there are 430 million active Reddit users monthly. I dropped Reddit with the app death, but people are vastly overestimating the direct impact that Lemmy could possibly have on Reddit.

Reddit’s not gonna start dying until the population starts migrating in significant amounts to alternatives, which is probably going to be a little cataclysmic for Lemmy.

I’m pretty sure “we’re” not doing the r/place protest. Lemmy has 63k active users per month, per the most recent user stats. Reddit pre-protest had 52 million daily active users and 450 million monthly active users.

I’m sure Reddit’s metrics have probably taken a hit, but it’s going to be the future people leaving Reddit for alternatives that kill it, not Lemmings that have already jumped ship shunning it. One small subreddit could individually take over Lemmy.

I like Lemmy, but it’s pure hubris to think that we would even be noticed by Reddit, outside of being a place to siphon users away to.

Bro.

The first set were, in order, a deep dive on an investment firm and their impact on residential property, the impact of private equity on multi-family residential property, the broad spectrum impact of investors on the residential market, another article on investors driving up home prices, homebuilders drawing down production and waiting out customers at the same price, and the last is a global perspective on the housing crisis by the World Economic Forum.

If you actually read them, you’d recognize literally everything I’ve said. I get skipping the article on Blackstone, because it’s an actual research article, but it details how Blackstone and Invitation Home would buy entire neighborhoods and then use that foundation to manipulate home and rent prices in the entire area, further improving their return on profits.

The one in the last comment was “Capitalism just working” during the pandemic lol. Which is half a joke, but to not see the relevance of the others is just wilful ignorance.

The internet scars us all in different ways.

Reddit’s normal traffic is 52 million users a day and 450 million a month. Lemmy has something like 150k active and 500k total users. Contributing to a thousandth of a percent of their activity to spread awareness of Lemmy isn’t going to even be visible unless literally everyone went.

I also stopped using Reddit, but I don’t begrudge people for poking their head back in. Though the Lemmy pixels got wiped out at some point.

Nah, that was it’s purpose. It’s like the pantry getting mad that you keep putting flour in it. That said there was more of a divergence once Reddit started hosting media directly and Imgur essentially gained its independence, so maybe they’re more aggressively anti-hosting content these days.

I guess you could always mark everything private so it only shows up by following the link, but I was already out of touch a decade ago when it came to the Imgur community, so I’m basically just a random bystander at this point.

By selling what they’ve built? They don’t make any money while building. I don’t expect you to read all of the links I offered, but at least skim them lol. Slowing completions and reducing starts keeps per unit profits high, as the alternative, cutting prices and accelerating completions and increasing starts boosts revenue but reduces per-unit profits. Small construction outfits have no choice other than continuing to work, but the larger ones can just slow expenses and refuse to move on price until they’re purchased.

Capitalism just tries to make as much money as possible. That’s only a benefit when human well-being and profit are aligned, and otherwise just inevitably results in monopolies if we let it.

Have another source https://archive.is/tosob

Canada cursed to never produce a maple leaf. The guillotine replaced by an Ariane rocket. An unnaturally thicc Pikmin. Fuck spez scattered across the world.

Also, DEEPCOCKGALACTIC 😂

It’s a shame Reddit is a mess, because these sort of silly community events are one of the best parts of the internet. Though some fools turned the dick in the DICKS piece into just a normal I. That was art.

As an aside, while staying off Reddit has the greatest impact on the company itself, Lemmy’s population is negligible compared to the number of angry redditors on Reddit itself. Advertising Lemmy as an alternative and guiding more people to join is going to have a much larger long-term impact than being a thousandth of a percent of their engagement numbers. That said, it looks like the Lemmy add disappeared as well.

Mole people! Yeah, at some point the disconnect between the two populations resulted in losing track of history. I just remember browsing the drama and chuckling at the sheer indignation towards Redditors treating Imgur as their personal image hosting site. Redditors got to feel superior after discovering that Imgur existed to serve them, and Imgurians(?) got to experience the horror of learning that the world was not what they thought it was.

There was a surprising amount of confusion on both sides.

Sure lol, the builders definitely aren’t profit driven organizations that operate based on market forces. It’s not some insidious thing, just a natural function of capitalism.

But yeah, we can at least agree on the YIMBYism. Out of everything, it at least provides a path forward that people can affect.

It was hilariously bizarre when it was discovered that a population of mole people had been living inside reddit’s image host for some period of time. Especially since they were were getting up in arms about how much reddit content was crowding up the site.

Wonder what life’s like in there these days.

I have, and I’m not making absurd claims. Zoning issues (including NIMBY) are directly tied to housing values, with the restrictions on construction intended to prevent home values from dropping. They do this by reducing the development of supply in the area. Home builders reduce the number of housing starts and completions take longer when housing prices dip, this constrains supply until demand boils over and purchases new housing. Investment groups buy, rent, and occasionally sell residential properties and the wealth they control allows them to influence market rates and lobby against market reforms.

This isn’t some conspiracy theory about how it’s a massive organized anti-consumer effort, because it’s not. What it is, is a series of natural market forces that all come together to sustain the problem because it’s incredibly profitable, and any solution would immediately cut into that profitability. There’s no direction to go that doesn’t “harm” either builders, investors, or owners, which is why it remains deadlocked and the only government efforts attempted are toothless. Somebody’s gonna have to lose potential profits, and there’s not a lot of political will to make that happen.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00961442211029601 https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becomes-your-landlord https://www.redfin.com/news/investor-home-purchases-q4-2021/ https://archive.is/8umYO https://www.housingwire.com/articles/homebuilders-are-pushing-through-inventory-backlog/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/affordable-housing-development-nimby/

Probably would have been worth clarifying that distinction earlier, but I’m not attacking families looking to pay for a home to be built. Construction companies that build new homes en masse are doing so to make money, not to address the housing shortage.

Much like Nissan being pleasantly surprised at making more money by discontinuing production of their cheaper models, larger construction companies aren’t at some sad loss to meet demand. they acquire building permits based on how many months of completed housing supply they have waiting to be purchased. When it passes a certain level, apparently 6 months of supply, they slow down completions and reduce the number of new permits until the supply is sold at the prices they want.

Otherwise it would be less profitable. I’m not saying there aren’t other issues, and smaller home building outfits struggle with local permitting, keeping employees, and rising prices for materials and appliances. But a huge issue with the industry is that it’s fundamentally against their best interest to solve the housing shortage. There’s a happy little feedback loop between builders and investors that keeps pumping home prices up, which lets new ones be sold for more, which pumps home prices up. Which restricts more and more of the housing market to investors, until the dystopian future where everyone rents except for the lucky souls that inherit the family property.

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Honestly brings a lot to the table. They’ve got my vote.