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  • Honestly same thing here. They didn’t even do internships anymore.

    They don’t seem to be hiring anyone that’s not a senior engineer either.

    They also have been regularly laying off folks every year or more than once a year but not backfilling. So workloads are up.

    Couple of this with them freezing promotions and now they’re risking high performers leaving because they aren’t being considered and rewarded for their contribution levels and engagement.











  • Development time and user support?

    These are two pretty obvious reasons. It takes time and time is a limited resource. Therefore, time should be spent on solving impactful problems. Lemmy account login is extremely low impact, it’s not a bad thing, it’s just not something that improves immich for a large portion of its user base.

    Another thing is user support. Since the many instances are self-hosted for the most part, and they will go offline, and they will go away forever in some instances. Users asking for support for this login type and asking for additional features to make up for this baked in instability.

    Essentially. Low impact work that may drive a higher volume of support efforts.

    It’s the same reason some niche projects stop supporting Linux. Low user volume and disproportionately high “neediness” of those users.





  • Let me definitely has a considerably smaller cost to reward ratio.

    The number of people that can be reached and influenced on Lemmy with bots is infinitesimally small compared to something like Reddit.

    But I guarantee you that the bots do not stick out, LLM bots are pretty damn good at blending in these days. And the shitty bots have been sliding by on the Internet for over a decade now.

    Lemmy and other federated services are in an unfortunate position where they have moderation and administrative tools that are on par with what would be expected 10-15 years ago for a large social media service (ie. Reddit). Which means we are almost entirely unprepared and incapable of handling malicious actors on Lemmy.






  • You’re only stocked for now. Hope you don’t smoke weed because pretty soon it’s going to be illegal to own a gun if you do.

    Only a fraction of Americans care and only a fraction of Americans own guns who will use them of those that care.

    And of that fraction only a fraction of them will be legally allowed to own guns in the near future.

    We are frogs and slowly warming water. Unless there is a flash event, we will boil alive and do nothing about it till there is nothing we can do about it (which is already coming up soon).