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   Eric Matthes (ehmatthes@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 06:41:10 JST Eric Matthes

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   Here's that same chart, focusing on 0-5k subscribers. For all those people with under 5,000 subscribers, Ghost is significantly more expensive.

   It's $100/ year just to get started. If you make it to the magical 1,000 subscriber mark, your reward is...doubled hosting costs. If you make it to 3k you're pushing $500/year, and at 5k subscribers you're bumping up against $1k/year.

   This is exactly the range where people struggle to monetize a growing newsletter.

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   Daniel Gomes (danielfgom@theres.life)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 02:21:57 JST Daniel Gomes

   @fuat2mb it gives me a better understanding of the type of life Jesus would have had. Cyprus is very similar to Israel both in fauna, flora, weather and farming traditions. Seeing how the Cypriots live as farmers, the extreme heat they have to deal with in summer, and the general way of life (life is hard here in the east, wages are low, summer is 45 Celsius and electricity very expensive.

   It's a very social society like Israel but it's also every man for himself because life is a struggle. For example I've sat outside a doctor's room waiting for my allotted appointment time. It's my turn but as the doctor opens the door suddenly seek other people barge in asking her to quickly look at this or do that. So I end up waiting longer until they are done.
   Same thing happens in the shopping queue, driving on the road, any event or government office. It's an elbows-out mentality that you also find in Israel.

   Jesus would have been dealing with this kind of mindset both with the Pharisees and the public. Remember He told the 5000 they they were only interested in Him because He gave them free food? That's exactly right. That's the mentality: Jesus has food that I want so let's follow Him everywhere so we can eat. Nevermind what He was teaching. They didn't even pay attention to that.

   Same with the Pharisees. They finally managed to get into positions of power above their fellow man and were not for one second going to entertain the thought of humbling themselves, giving away their wealth and position, to follow Jesus. In this type of society it would be suicide. All the people would call them idiots if they did that.

   I think that's why Jesus chose fishermen. They were already at the bottom, they had nothing to lose following Him and life had humbled them. That humility allowed them to see that Jesus is the Messiah.

   This same "my neighbour better not have more than me" mentality that keeps the Palestinians fighting Israel. They just can't humble themselves to let the Jews have the land and prosper. It must be for them, even if they are in the wrong. And they lie ALOT to make Israel look bad. All of the death statistics are false. It's way, way less. Many times they fake injuries for the camera. I've seen photos and videos of them doing this. Just to make the West and the Muslim world angry with Israel.

   They are born liars and killers I'm afraid. They are raised to be like that. It's too late now. Israel will have to push them out. There's no other way.

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   Mel Campbell (incrediblemelk@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2023 17:54:00 JST Mel Campbell

   Fantastic essay by @pluralistic who for some time has been commenting on the “enshittification” of media.

   He points out that the companies that target ads to you on social media probably have worse products. They spend so many resources surveilling their target audience that they have to cut corners on the product and make it more expensive.

   It was kind of thrilling to me to ponder that old-fashioned print-style advertising, based on the product’s relevance to the contextual content around it, is cheaper, more effective and puts more control in the hands of media creators than the shit system of having to pay tech gatekeepers to even get your product in front of your customers.

   “a privacy law, ad-tech breakups, app-store competition and end-to-end delivery would shatter the power of Big Tech and shift power to users, creative workers and media companies. These are solutions that don't just keep working if Big Tech goes away – they actually hasten that demise! What's more, they work just as well for big companies as they do for independents.”

   https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/