Are you sure they are the companies owning the homes? They look like realtors to me.
I have heard of rental funds buying up real estate but I think this is still a relatively small portion of the market with a relatively large number of players such as these
I would argue that the app is essentially the collusion.
Yea but this is a situation in which price fixing would be nearly impossible without the intermediary, due to the large number of participants. And price fixing is still illegal.
I’ll take humanity where I can get it.
The AI is just allowing them to work together in a giant price fixing scheme.
Bluesky has far more robust tools for blocking bad actors. You can subscribe to auto updating block lists which take these people off your feed.
The difference being that Bluesky has very robust block lists which you can subscribe to to remove these accounts for you.
Hacker news is empty for me…?
I, for one, am waiting on ARM to upgrade my Surface Go.
I tend to use Twitter if I’m talking about the pre-Musk infused flavor and Xitter for the Musky turd flavor. Since we must compare features to the now-existing platform, I used the new naming convention ;-).
I use both. I’ve been on Mastodon for the better part of a year and only actively tried Bluesky the last couple weeks. My Bluesky feed is thriving, whereas Mastodon not so much. IMO this is due to Mastodon is missing the major quality of life features of Bluesky.
These things make Bluesky very easy to get started with and more powerful even than Xitter was. It’s simply a better product if you have any requirements other than federation. Getting a good feed up and running doesn’t take more than an hour or two. Mastodon is a lot more work.
Yes, its federation is more or less bullshit, but for most users, that feature is a distant priority when compared to the rest.
This is a scammer’s goldmine.
This sounds very non open source to me, it already has a per user price, vc funding, etc. Are you able to take it and host it yourself if you want? Can you fork the code?
I’ve worked in sales for 25 years and I have yet to encounter this mythical “well implemented salesforce instance”.
Imagine simping for a 3 trillion dollar company that did this for the sole purpose of making more money on wireless earbuds. SMH.
It’s true, that’s the advantage of a larger user base. But when I compare my homepage of Reddit after 15 years of refinement to that of my lemmy homepage after 1 year, my lemmy one is way better. Most of those niche communities devolve into memes and nonsense like the same questions being asked over and over and over again after a while. Great for searching, but for actually getting content on a regular basis from, mostly a waste of time.
They don’t have to have everyone on them to be good. In some ways it’s preferable not to. Reddit was far better before the Digg migration, and we might already be living in the golden years of Lemmy and not even realize it.
I think the smartest ones will. Really I don’t mind an intelligent community like this one.
It has improved here though, thank Jeebus.
I’m not sure what that means, but if the link I gave was correct and the biggest one has ~85,000 homes, that’s only 0.1% of the total US single family housing market of 82 million single family homes. That would indicate that there would be thousands of landlords in most areas, meaning that collusion between them would require a sophisticated networked system between them.