Notices by Marcos Huerta (marcoshuerta@vmst.io)

@chargrille most, but not all, manufacturers are giving $7500 upfront as a capital cost reduction (“lease cash”) when you lease the car.

One set of advice is lease, get the $7500 as a cap cost reduction, then immediately buy out the lease.

If you wait until the end of the lease, you will give back most of the $7500 in the payments as the “money factor.”

Fairly good post on leasing here (Hyundai specifically since they don’t get the new purchase credit): https://www.reddit.com/r/Ioniq5/comments/12nb20a/leasing_101_or_how_to_get_a_good_deal_on_an_ioniq/

@patak oh, and unfortunately the *federated* timeline API does not have application_name in the statuses for anything not on the instance.

So, like if I look at my own home timeline in the API, only people on the vmst.io instance have a non-empty application_name field.

I’m not sure if this is a deliberate or a bug. Or maybe activitypub lacks a way to send this info across instances?

Select client app share on mastodon.social based on a sample of ~3600 posts per day from its local timeline. (~600 posts taken every 4 hours).

@ivory moving on up to ~9% or so. @icecubesapp getting close to ~2%. @elk maybe 1%. The official iOS app steadily declining (presumably as new third party iOS apps continue to enter release or betas.)

(There are a ton of application_names, so I filtered out to just look at a few. Web remains steady-ish around 35%)