Carighan Maconar

The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Duties fee on shipping?
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    10 days ago

    Well, what do the duty declaration and duty tracking sticker say?

    At least over here there ought to be one that tells you what the seller declared the goods and their value as, and another that tells you either the specifics of the duty fee calculated, or one with a large (over here) letter+number combination that tells you which standard category this falls under (usually for duty free packages).

    50 on 300 is is ~17%, so that’s a pretty normal duty depending on the goods and which country they originate from.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's wrong with bluesky?
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    2 months ago

    Sure, but as you cannot know the future, it’s a bit tricky to pick a successor you want to support based on that, instead of absolutely right-now-essential things such as “Where people actually are”.

    It’s also important to keep in mind how long Twitter’s run was: It was originally founded 18 years ago. I’d be okay if every 10-15 years I have to get a new Twitter, tbh. I buy a new phone every 4-5 years, a new car every 15-20, I’m alright. It’s cheap to go onto a new Twitter, I’m far less resistant to change with that.

    That is to say: Sure, maaaybe (again, can’t truly know) Mastodon is superior on a technical level. But not only is that absolutely not how social media operates, and second it really doesn’t matter if a sucessor also goes down in 10+ years. People won’t be able to care any less if a successor lasts that long, and considering how quickly Mastodon has turned into a semi-ghost-town once Bluesky got big, I kinda know what I’d put my money onto.

    Of course all of this ignores a central problem with the entire category of services: They don’t conduct conversations well, even stuff like Misskey or Mastodon.