Fuck you. You dunce.

From Amazon:

In 2023, FBA had been the preferred choice of 82% of Amazon sellers to deliver their products.

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.

Amazon doesn’t handle shipping for a lot of the things they sell.

This is false. Very few products sold via Amazon are shipped independently from Amazon’s logistics services.

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.

I honestly don’t think federated architecture is valuable for a chat room service.

If matrix wasn’t so poorly implemented, I’d recommend it.

I dove in to the deepend and found Matrix to be underwhelming and that’s probably generous.

Thanks for the link.

Why not promote piefed?

People here are satisfied with using the ActivityPub services and content with slow growth of a now sustainable but relatively small user group.

The people who want to use bsky just want a better Twitter. And bsky has delivered that. If that’s temporary, it’s better for them to use it while it lasts because Mastodon is absolutely not what those people using bsky want. Mastodon to them is technically worse than Twitter but something they may settle for if bsky wasn’t an option.

Federation and decentralization is not what the users of bsky want. It’s (for some) a nice to have thing but way down on the list of what they value.

I agree with most of what you said, just wanted to let you know that the tone wasn’t optimal for facilitating understanding.

Have a nice weekend.

You seem to have take a very uncharitable interpretation of this post.

This is what people didn’t want. But it was inevitable that eventually that people would stop complaining about the newest iteration of this.

Yup. This is why Discord/Whatsapp/Telegram are so popular, for better or worse.

I wish that gained some traction.

I also wish it had a name that is easy to intuit a pronunciation.

When I want to have back and forth between people on a regular basis, I choose chat apps. Mastodon feels like it’s trying to be a poorly designed chat app.

I do worry that they’ll run out of money before they can do the work to let the ecosystem become sustainable by itself.

I’m mildly concerned about this as well.

You don’t need to access information via the relay. You can have a client get information directly from PDSes or Appviews that don’t get their information from the relay.