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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • We could start a buy/sell/swap space using existing Lemmy technology, if we left the messy details for users to figure out for themselves.

    Messy details add up quick, though. Payments, currencies, mailing addresses, reputation, conflict resolution, returns, scammers and spam.

    But “Craigs List” solved very little of that on day one, and went on to be pretty successful.

    So it’s possible. happening now, I’ve just learned. Neat!. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/buyselltrade

    (Edit: Added link to the surreal thing. Thanks!) (Edit 2: I swallowed the onion whole. Mostly jokes, there, I think. I’m gonna leave the link anyway.)













  • It’s more that they want to say “AI Dangerous”. It’s step 2 in the oligopoly playbook:

    1. ”It’s a perfectly safe miracle solution. Invest with us or miss out."
    2. "It turns out it’s really dangerous. We need the governments to make tough laws that coincidentally prevent start-up companies from competing with us, (while we don’t sell you any RAM chips.)
    3. “Remember those miraculous investment returns we promised, the evil governments forced us to spend them all on lawyers and stuff. Sorry about that. But the good news is…”
    4. “We have a new safe sure-fire miracle solution (to something new and different). Invest with us, or miss out!”