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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I just checked Airbnb prices in Austin with flexible pricing for a weekend, and the only way I could even sniff $100 a night is if I turned on “Display total price,” which factors in the cleaning fee. Turning it on rockets up the price.

    The cheapest place that gives you the whole place to yourself on Airbnb is the Holiday Inn lol.

    Which again, supports my experience of hotels being competitive. They’ve only just given you the option to turn on “Display total price,” so if you’re browsing Airbnb’s before, the price didn’t include the exorbitant cleaning fees which is how the owners hid their prices.

    Maybe worth taking a look at those receipts in your email to see if you actually paid $100 a night. If 90% of people are complaining, either your a genius or it’s actually a real issue ;)


  • True, but are Airbnb’s even cheaper than hotel rooms anymore in cities?

    Only time I’ve found that to be true is when you have a lot of people, getting a single Airbnb can be cheaper than multiple hotel rooms. Otherwise, Airbnb’s basically are similar in price or negligibly cheaper.





  • I’ve posted about this before and I think a lot of people disagree, but some centralization is good. There has to be a no-thought option for when people want to join Lemmy. After they learn more about federation, they can move on to another instance.

    The reason why kbin grew so fast is because for a lot of people, Kbin = kbin.social (See how “kbin” links to kbin.social on: list of alternatives on Reddit)

    I believe this also explains Beehaw’s growth despite their onerous rules. When someone recommends Beehaw, they don’t need to think about which instance of Beehaw they want to join, they just go to Beehaw.

    A lot of people are dogmatic about federation, but I quite frankly think that if you are going to die on the hill, don’t complain when you die.