AirBnB bans host for knowing the wrong people, without disclosing who the wrong person was, denies appeals with cookie cutter mails (“after careful consideration”) every time.
This is some boringdistopia shit. Some bot damn near ruins a family and won’t even tell them why.
No, a family that could not afford to own a second home bought one and then couldn’t profit from it.
They couldn’t profit from it because of a bot. That issue is going to get more widespread and someone you know will be affected by it.
I think that maybe the lesson I’m learning in these last few years (through the misadventures of others), is that trusting platforms with your livelihood is not a very good idea. It’s just too fragile.
I’m OK to use them as a tool, but whatever business I build must be able to survive suddenly losing access.
That’s seems like reasonable.
I’m sure I’m not telling you anything new, but if you use them for marketing I’d always try to include your self hosted link. Before retiring for health reasons I worked in mfr and I know when we would have shortages from our existing suppliers for actual parts we’d also start just googling that part directly and occasionally would find new suppliers that way though that involved more risks and extra testing of the parts ordered so it wasn’t a regular thing.
For consumer stuff I enjoyed a lot of reddits comics and am glad I bookmarked those artists site so I can give them clicks directly. Plus I won’t miss out on limited sales of merch for some of them. There was a dragon plushie I regret missing. Good luck on your business.
I think we need more competition and anti trust enforcement on the big conglomerates that own majority’s of any said market. Sometimes feel like we are going through another robber baron stage in the US.
