In most HCOL areas there is a higher minimum wage even for tipped workers, so keep that in mind. In DC for example minimum wage for tipped workers is going up annually over the next 4 years to meet regular minimum wage, up to about $17/hr. I anticipate tipping percentages should go down as this phases in as there will no longer be a differentiation.

I used an email address that would tell me where the spam is coming from to sign up for Lemmy. None of my spam email is coming with that email address so I don’t think I’m getting spam from Lemmy sold emails… I have noticed more phishing emails but I think it’s just Gmail letting them through or being more targeted.

I mean some people are complaining about the price. But I don’t care about the price necessarily, as I’m not “protesting”. I’m simply tired of participating in the shittification of social media sites while they seek to monetize us. So them charging anything, or attempting to be profitable, is inherently the turnoff for me, because there is an inevitable path that a for-profit social media website takes.

Not sure if you know but there’s an entire instance dedicated to the DMV already - DMV.social, and DC’s community is https://dmv.social/c/washingtondc or !washingtondc@dmv.social

I’ve noticed this by googling my username and finding reddit comments still present that don’t show up on my profile.

I don’t understand this claim. Do you have any evidence?

That’s been true from the mobile app for a while. Whenever I save a photo from the reddit app it comes with a watermark that says what sub it’s from.

Hopefully there will be a Lemmy equivalent to r/fuckcars and r/YIMBY soon enough.

I specifically moved somewhere where we could use more public transit because my climate anxiety was overwhelming me.

the 500 comment limit made the concept of daily threads replacing common questions a killer on subs like r/fitness. “Has this question been asked before? Well, instead of being able to pull up several threads about this topic, I have to go through the daily threads of hundreds of days and search the comments for keywords - after increasing the number of comments visible from 200 to 500, and then still not being able to search all the comments on the 1000+ comment threads.” Just genuinely became unusable.