Super cool, thank you so much! I still am not sure if I can see Firefish posts automatically in the Microblog tab though. I also don’t know anyone there yet but I’ve been thinking of making an account after seeing a few posts here about it!
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Does Kbin also show posts from other microblog Fediverse like Firefish? It would be really nice if it could!
11·2 years agoThe article also goes on to show the typical Etsy customer and seller mentality (and as an Etsy customer I can say I also share this mentality. Keep in mind that most of the things sold on Etsy are small artisan/crafted goods and a lot of times the shipping cost can cost more than the item itself, much less tracked shipping):
A lot of sellers don’t want to force their customers to pay for tracked shipping because international tracking can rack up a huge cost.
Steen Ross, from Norwich, has £1,800 held in a reserve on her Etsy account.
She has sold custom costumes to a largely American customer base on Etsy for a decade and relies on her Etsy income to pay rent.
"Most of my sales go to America and about 90% of people don’t want to pay the additional cost of tracking because it’s so expensive, they are happy for me to just provide proof of postage.
“I’m worried that if I raise prices to include tracking, I’ll lose a lot of sales, but if I don’t Etsy won’t release funds from my reserve before 45 days.”
@Hogger85b the article mentions why:
This means the money needed to pay for the product and ship it out is not received until after it is made and shipped.
A lot of sellers don’t want to force their customers to pay for tracked shipping because international tracking can rack up a huge cost.
This is really exciting if it works out and gets commercialised widely! One thing I’m not sure I understand is whether this requires entirely new cement, or if somehow the carbon black and capacitors can be mixed into existing cement structures (especially roads)? As mentioned in the article, cement is a high emission product and we already have so much of it in the world.