agree with what everyone else has said here. worry less about “should” and go find your tribe wherever it may be.

as i once said to a friend who contemplated the same kind of move years ago, if it doesn’t work out you can always move back. not like it’s a one way street.

i dropped a drill on my toe, fell bit side down. punctured and broke it at the same time. dont know if this helps or hurts you root canal - best wishes for a speedy recovery ❤️

former redditor who belonged to many sfw “porn” inage forums but never one like this. beautiful way to populate my feed - thank you all for your contributions and fine conversation ❤️

💯i was in strong anger last week.

hopefully whatever you were making with that sour cream will survive the beef rawhide replacement 🤣

welcome to you and everyone else coming over! looking forward to great shenanigans.

The movie citizen four did an excellent job detailing different ways a government (in this case the united states) can do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour

spez fucking with 3rd party developers, mods and fucking down on lies to the community.

not at all. i fell into computing in my mid 20s. somehow i managed to learn enough to get myself hired at one of the largest technology companies in the world where i’ve now been over 20 years.

has it been easy? definitely not. without that classic computer science degree my peers have i’ve had to be scrappier and move faster to be on top of emerging tech where the playing field is a little more equal. i can this “surfing” the tech.

since i started i’ve participated in the birth of the internet, mobile, public cloud, big data, startups and now ai.

if you love it you can make it happen - just be realistic and stay scrappy ❤️

this ^^. even if we peel off 5% in a relatively even scrape across all the interests that’s enough content for me to scratch the itch daily.

awesome- very exciting and thank you 😊

fwiw i work with a bunch of former ibmers.

super super nice people who are crazy smart.

but think something in their brains got wired differently when they worked there - they just build all sorts of amazing stuff without thinking about the strategy for it. who will use it, in what scenarios, how will it be supported once interest surpasses cycles of the creator.

not all indicative of the companies history or current reputation but interesting to see at the micro level

this! that’s the way to help us grow while still caring for your community. we don’t need silver around here but please accept my thanks ❤️

funny but admit that even with less users and less content here my dopamine hit actually happens faster in lemmy.

thank you all for great content ❤️

all attention to this mess is good imho. also remember chat gpt was trained on reddit data i until fall 2021 so should be able to pull on archived zeitgeist for a quick and dirty answer

haha yes- this 🙌🏻!! more interaction in the last week than in 4 years on reddit.

i just broke my own rule and posted to reddit modcoord using a burner account. will react and burn it in 24 hrs.

my message to them was this: unfortunately human mods will be the next to go - they’ve shown their power to reddit and once this ipo happens they move from becoming a thorn in spez’ side to a risk to shareholder value that needs to be “mitigated.”

spez wants control. control of the apis. control of the app. control over the platform . he can get there first two but then mods prevent the last. he needs control if the ad revenue is to happen so he can exit with his golden parachute. health of the communities or platforms be damned.

i suspect at some point he’ll not only demod all of the human mods in favor of botmod + ftes but may also go the extra step to delete the mod accounts entirely – he’ll justify the killing of their handlers with some bs policy.

this will leave mods demodded; powerless with no voice or identity - consider… how can u/newname prove they’re really u/ex-mod without revealing personal info that might doxx themselves?

recommended they establish an alternate means of communication with their community here or on discord.

we should also consider standing up an mod coord here so they have a place they can freely speak and plan without sock puppet spez accounts or bots courting the conversation.

wonder if regular carpet bombing the open subs with a black “Reddit is killing third-party app (and itself)” might be effective? gives the mods an “out” because it’s not against TOS - and if it were widespread enough eventually a few of them will hit front page

unfortunately yes the blackout will eventually pass … right now i think the only question is at what cost to reddit?

curious what the zeitgeist would be if the vc or fidelity made soez step down, which replaces him and to what net effect?

seeing his credibility is completely shot publicly, is this at all worthy of putting on the table?

shower thoughts… and still on my first cup of coffee to more just musing than anything …

if storage is the concern wonder if the lemmy roadmap might one day include an option to use cloud based storage?

azure storage at .06/gb per month is likely cheaper and more redundant than local storage - even if you factor in calls to the blob which could be lowered via caching.

cloud storage potentially might one day lead to a option for smaller self hosters to opt into a shared blob instance where the and cost is shared.

in this scenario security to ensure the cloud blob couldn’t be deleted would need to be thought through (maybe splitting the password among multiple admins with each having one part of the whole?) but might be one way to better encourage more self hosting for them compute side of things.