That was what I thought five years ago. I was on the verge of removing it, and the android Facebook app killed my phone’s battery, so delete it went.

And suddenly all my family drama stopped and if someone needs to get in touch with me, how surprising that they still found a way.

¥1590/month.

Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?

I switched to Linux a few years ago and you are not wrong.

Windows is a nightmare with directory organization.

Saved games can go:

• My Documents/
• My Documents/Games
• My Documents/My Games
• <app>/saved-games

Why don’t you want to vote for the felon rapist who has a history of racist comments and has taken money from corporations and foreign government over the Cop lady?

Y’all remember Pidgin?

That proggie was the bomb for all your AOL, ICQ, MSN, etc so you can keep up with your homies while you update your live journal.

So… everyone instead just went to Bluesky and Threads where sign-up links were provided rather than directory links and manifestos.

Wild! This was my exact thought as I was signing up for Mastadon. I spent like 15 minutes figuring out what Mastadon is, what server to join, what each server means. Then I did the thing like I did with Lemmy and created half a dozen accounts waiting to see which server gave me my “Account Created” email first.

Doing minor “crime” in school was how I became a programmer!

Losing their jobs? Uh what?

WordPress core is pretty wild. But modern WordPress isn’t working purely in that. The latest WP uses PHP primarily as a backend, and modern JS as a frontend and passing data through filters->DB.

I won’t call it elegant. But it’s not the PHP experience from five years ago.

I see this all the time. People complain about WP but think the alternatives are better, when they’re just trading problems for others.

WP core is stable AF. I’ve shared in many prior comments how I spend so many more dev hours fixing other CMSes over WP.

And if you don’t even need a CMS, removed it all and switch to static hosting and markdown.

It makes sense.

Supporting Tumblr backend with patches vs building on top of stable WP and improving it seems like a win win.

How so?

This is a very rude question, but on this subject of being lean, I looked up your 990, and you pay yourself less than … well, you pay yourself half or a third as much as some of your engineers.

Yes, and our goal is to pay people as close to Silicon Valley’s salaries as possible, so we can recruit very senior people, knowing that we don’t have equity to offer them. We pay engineers very well. [Leans in performatively toward the phone recording the interview.] If anyone’s looking for a job, we pay very, very well.

But you pay yourself pretty modestly in the scheme of things.

I make a very good salary that I’m very happy with.

That’s pretty cool. But knowing the number would matter.

Silly question.

Why?And how much does it cost to run a Lemmy instance that size?

The one reason I don’t want to do it is because I’m not interested in the drama side of moderating.

I bounced between a few instances and .world seemed to always be up and available. Not to mention all the communities on .world.

I don’t have an allegiance. Open more communities in other instances or migrate the .world ones there.

I just want to post.

Never been a fan of fontawesome after their major shifts towards a paid product and just insane bloat by incorporating so many variants.

Then again, the problem is hard since branded icons will only grow. Yesterday is Insta. Today’s tiktok. Tomorrow it’s Gabbagoobiee. Not to mention logo changes and whatever the removed Twitter is doing.

Rooting for their success.

Oh nice!

Then it’s really just a bad name. Volunteer ambassador implies a lot of other responsibilities.

Other industries call it like VIP or Insiders Club. And their responsibilities for being a part of it is to also share the excitement of the product.

as a chronic documentation reader, the best advice i can give is to document everything Anything that the user can and will potentially interact with, should be extensively documented, including syntax and behavior.

I don’t know about that. I’ve read some terrible documentation that had everything under the sun. Right now in the library I’m using, the documentation has every available class, every single method, what it’s purpose.

But how to actually use the damn thing? I have to look up blog posts and videos. I actually found someone’s website that had notes about various features that are better than the docs.

There’s a delicate balance of signal vs noise.

I used to mock people who make YouTube videos that literally just walk through the documentation. Like bro, get some reading comprehension!

But then when I fumbled with some self hosting tutorials, those YouTube videos were the only thing that made sense, because they’re explaining why and how.

Sorry y’all.

They do? The handful of conservatives who smoke weed libertarians I work with are absolutely using Linux.

I’m confused by this.