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More cross-talk would be a good way to make lemmy seem more active, too (which would address a common complaint that people have about lemmy, ie that its not active enough) because there is combatively more activity on mastodon

Not surprising, given it’s not really the same kind of platform as the broader fediverse is.

Why is that? (I’m a noob please explain)

Jesus Christ, I don’t even know what to say. That’s absolutely horrific. I hope you and your family are safe.

Damn. What were the protests like? I heard people were getting killed?

Off topic but what’s it like in Iran right now? If what I’m seeing in the news is correct then things are absolutely going off the rails over there atm

Thats a long time. 2017 was 9 years ago. What changes have you noticed since then?

Communities split over instances make it pretty hard to know where to post things, what with defederation and such.

Piefed can help mitigate this a bit. If there’s a link thats been shared across multiple lemmy instances it will consolidate all the comments into one post

Yes. There are also second-order effects at play here. Buying these materials second-hand may normalize their use, or even contribute to fashion trends, which may make other people more likely to buy those materials first-hand. This would of course result in financial support for the leather and fur industries. That said though, these second order effects are very unpredictable and hard to measure, and their strength would vary a lot person to person, depending on how influential someone is.

Yeah the supply and demand thing is key here. People in developing countries are exploited because there is a financial incentive to exploit them. That financial incentive comes from people buying their products directly, because that is how they generate revenue. But there is no way they can generate revenue if you only buy their products second-hand, so its not incentivizing them to maintain their sweatshops or whatever.

The most damage buying second-hand can do is by generating revenue for these companies indirectly. For example if OP was in position where wearing these items contributes to fashion trends that cause others to buy the items directly. But unless OP is an Instagram influencer it something (which is doubtful, given that they’re on lemmy) then these indirect, second-order effects are very unpredictable and hard to measure.

This is the second time I’ve heard this reference. It’s going over my head. Where’s it from?