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Cake day: October 3rd, 2023

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  • I had not realised this before, that there are multiple versions of the same community on different instances. For example there are multiple meme communities on different instances.

    I wonder how this affects engagement considering that although there might be one large community there are several smaller ones. Perhaps not everyone assumes that there’s a larger community on a different instance.

    Also how does this affect niche communities where it may be that due to high fragmentation these communities might seem unusually small.

    Further, if these niche communities remain unusually smaller than there Reddit counter parts would users leave do to perhaps lack of content versus their Reddit counter parts.

    This is kind of a chicken and egg - users migrate or engage the more activity there is and it may lead to discouragement if their first impression is that there isn’t content.

    I don’t know I’m probably rambling and don’t know what I’m talking about.





  • When I said buy local I was specifically talking about food and similar. Depending on few factors such as: climate, availability of land, other people with similar goals, food can be easy to produce either as a group or individual basis and there are systems looking at an aquaponics cycle for example tilapia -> leafy greens -> BSF maggots -> you can either split this into chickens and tilapia or just back into tilapia (we’ve done this it really requires a group effort and land availability).

    Other things as you’ve mentioned like furniture can be a little more challenging due to economies of scale (also child labour, corruption, and general shittery) that major corporations are able to exploit that a local tradesperson can’t.

    For this sort of stuff I just try to budget, I never buy it immediately.

    I guess it’s about compromises, and unfortunately for certain things we have to do so.

    To reiterate the importance of a group, it’s really made it a lot easier to cut costs by having a group with various expertise.