I said in my final paragraph that Lemmy is nice but there is so little content here. The communities I frequent here (with very active reddit counterparts) have like a submission every few days. Just check !football@lemmy.world for example.

My first gig as a software developer offered Fedora23 I think it was if you wanted Linux. Would be interesting to see how much has changed but I don’t really have a machine to just throw fedora on

Much harder to get distracted with a pen and paper. Main reason I use it.

Ah, might be! It’s been 10+ years since I tried it. Back then I found it very hard to navigate

Same with Lightroom vs Darktable.

Books on Google Play Books

I think one general benefit of open source is that in general - they are built for the user rather than for the stakeholders.

If Spotify was an open source app - you know for sure you would be able to hide podcasts for example (for people who don’t care about podcasts and just want a music experience). However, since for Spotify The Business it’s better to piss off X% of their users if Y% of their users turn into podcast users - they’re not going care about the angry X%.

So in general - in open source apps you’ll generally find features users actually want and very rarely the app will try to push new features on you because they’re trying to make numbers look good on their quarterly report.

European here. Telegram and FB Messenger is used by everyone even for iPhone to iPhone communication.

I just try really hard to do the small things all the time. Whenever I leave a room, I try to bring something with me that shouldn’t be in that room. Whenever I go into the kitchen, I try to clean one thing in the kitchen whether it’s putting something in the dishwasher or throwing out an empty package.

Just do small things whenever you have a moment.

Our place still looks chaotic though so don’t expect miracles.

Stop trying to beat the market. Invest in a cheap global index fund and just keep buying.

Most of the aspects have already been covered but I would want to add one:

This was always the plan, it just wasn’t as highly prioritised as growth.

I work as a developer at a big tech company. We (the company) had our roadmap and it was mostly about getting more users. The more users you have the day the economy turns - the better off you are (… If you manage to turn an profit).

So when the economy went to shit and we (and other tech companies) no longer can loan money for free to cover our running expenses - the priorities shift. Working towards attracting more users is only going to increase your costs at the point and you don’t want to run out of money. So all roadmaps changed and cost saving efforts became the highest prio all of the sudden.

You are used to a time where money was essentially free for companies. Whenever they needed money, they could loan money almost for free.

As interest rates are up, that’s no longer the case and priorities have changed from growth to plugging holes.

Tbh when I joined I didn’t completely understand the fediverse. I tried to join Lemmy One first because it sounded generic enough. It didn’t accept new joiners so I moved to the next generic one.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that a lot of users are going to do the same. And even though I might swear in church now, I guess that’s the fragility you get with fediverse. Ruud can kill this instance at any point. He can grow bored, decide he wants to put his money elsewhere, instance can grow too big for him to afford, etc. People are angry Reddit have 30 days but Ruud could easily kill this instance overnight.

Reddit is a shithole of a company, but at least you can trust a company to like money and certain futures are simply not realistic because that would hurt the income.

I have no doubt Reddit will still be here in five years. I wouldn’t bet the same amount on any fediverse instance

I don’t want to be that guy but does this guy have a good track record? Kind of feel he managed to get a good Lemmy domain (generic sounding one) and now he has the biggest instance.

Do we know he’s a jolly good fellow?

Definitely will die. I just don’t see how instances will be supported financially. The fediverse is nice but at the end of the day, the instances are running somewhere and there are bills to pay.

Ironically, people who have managed to do this would not see your question

Yeah, I work at a big international tech company myself and sometimes get surprised by the amount of people we have working on our app.

My guess would be that it has to do with

1. More features (I think the Apollo developer mentioned how some features aren’t available through the API?)
2. More insights (I would guess that the official Reddit app contains way more code to track and quantity the user)
3. On-call. I assume the 3PA won’t get paged in the middle of the night if there’s a critical bug in their code.
4. Experiments. Wouldn’t surprise me if the official Reddit app is using experiments (I.e. A/B testing) to try new features or changes in UI
5. New features. The Apollo developer is the one who has to adapt. API changes, new features are (maybe?) added while I assume in house app developers work together with the rest of the company to bring those features.

Etc.

None of these points explain why they’d need 80x more developers of course. It’s also just because reddit is a big company and the bigger you get, the more time you spend in meetings, writing documents, etc. and then you hire more developers to increase the velocity and then you end up with a slow machine.

I mean, the complexity of an iOS app is nothing against running one of the world’s largest websites…

I can definitely get annoyed by how black and white everything always has to be on the internet.

Can I be upset that Reddit is killing my 3rd party app? Absolutely Can I also realise that Reddit is not a charity and that in this economy, they are no longer going to subsidize 3rd party app developers? Absolutely

Like, I left Reddit because I think their official app sucks balls. I had a 3rd party app I loved. I’m upset. But it’s also weird to see Meta, Alphabet, Spotify, Amazon, etc. lay off their staff and at the same time expect Reddit to willingly hand their content over for free to 3rd party apps.

I’m upset but I’m not naïve.