It became the post of the year on Reddit that year. I bump into it from time to time in the interwebz. :)

Hah! I didn’t even notice. Debo wasn’t available on Reddit 15+ years ago when I joined so I actually added the “re”. It took the rise of Lemmy for me to use my preferred nick. :)

lol. I’m the one who coined the term after Wadsworth came up with the concept!

There’s some new research that shows raising pay is not great for retention. Studies say it’s better to take that money and put it into a long-term benefit line a pension, profit sharing, while life insurance with a cash out value, etc.

Raises and bonuses had about a 3-month effect.

How much power are you consuming in the closet?

“Two kilos of the low sodium please.”

You’re not wrong, but those same walled gardens keep corporations OUT as much as they keep you IN.

If you like your gardener, no big deal. But if you want azaleas and the gardener prefers daisies, ur out of luck.

The fact that we’re done posting old memes makes this chef’s kiss perfectly sublime.

O SHIT!

Certified Vintage

Anyone message Ruud yet?!?

It’s funny how people continue to think that joining threads is optional.

Significant Brother

My city in AZ just passed an ordinance that requires any short term rentals to have a permit, the owner must be able to respond to the property within 60 minutes, AND there must be a verified neighbor reachable 24 hours of the day and verified.

That should put a significant dent in landlord rent seeking behavior.

Microsoft who owns the game Minecraft made a statement that they will not refer their player base to reddit going forward due to their ongoing policy changes around 3rd party apps and the like.

Low-grav, insta-gib is the best play mode.

To be fair, I don’t think any of us know reddit’s costs nor its revenue. We do know that the current CEO says that they are “not profitable”. But let’s just pretend for a minute that if reddit did what you say (scale down, stop the NFT TT bullshit) that they’d be a ‘stable successful business’.

Ask yourself: Would YOU want to work for a company that’s just eeking by, with limited growth or upward potential for your personal income? I sure as hell wouldn’t. If reddit ‘tried’ to act like a co-operative they’d quickly lose the limited talent they do have to be replaced by “digital babysitters” who have the skills to reboot a server when it hangs and not much else. They certainly ain’t going to attract the devs who can actually CREATE the mod tools that we’ve been after for YEARS.

At some point we need reddit and other sites like it to be profitable so that they can attract talent to continue to develop and expand the features of the site or else some other company will come along and do exactly that, putting reddit out of business.

Does reddit need to become profitable solely off the backs of API calls, no; which is why I’m here (and you too I assume) but we cannot pretend that any of this work is either easy or free to produce.

And you would do this to scare the seller into lowering the price or?!?

I lean to the right in my political views yet I do not exhibit any of the behaviors that you are subscribing to an entire population. Consider being more exact with your words lest you alienate people with vitriol.

Where were they at when you saw them? Were they with anyone? Did they look happy?