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They have TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE working at Reddit and Memmy for Lemmy is a superior product with how many people working on it?? 3?
Spez is an impossibly incompetent Elon Musk wannabe (the person who just flushed $44 BILLION down the toilet due to incompetence). He needs to be drawn and quartered tbh
Elon flushed 44B and made 96B just this half year.
The game isn't right somewhere.
The game was rigged from the start.
Always has been.
Haha never has been
There's one interesting thought that never comes up in history class...
What happened to the aristocracy?
They didn't give back their land holdings (basically anywhere), they didn't pay reparations, they didn't give up their investments... In some places, they never stopped getting a stipend.
France and Russia. They killed the aristocracy (although others filled the void). In the Americas, if they existed they were killed and replaced with Europeans. In much of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, locals were raised up to the position.
The US is organized into counties (Counts), territories (Marquis), and states (Duke). There's a couple commonwealths like Virginia too... Why? What does landowners mean? It's all over the constitution. A jury of your peers sounds a lot like a group from the peerage. A redress of grievances from the federal government isn't an option for the common man, but it's in the bill of rights.
When did it end? Because Lord Fairfax isn't a title held anymore, but Fairfax county VA most certainly still hosts the Fairfax family, who are extremely wealthy landlords. They called capitalists who rose up from the common people "robber barons" only a few generations ago... Maybe not because they stole from the people (Carnegie and Rockefeller most certainly gave back to the community), maybe because they didn't come from a certain social class? Name a billionaire or a senator that didn't come from the "I never have to work" class...I can't.
Yeah, the game is rigged. It has been since Rome. The lines have been blurred, but they're still clear if you look for them
"Why is America constructed similarly to the country the people who founded it were from"
C'mon man this is not a conspiracy lol. There is no true American aristocracy, in the way an aristocracy is actually defined. Having money is a very good thing, and your life is easier if you have it. That's not a conspiracy.
FOSS does not have an inherent detriment versus corporate products. If enough people want to do it, development of FOSS can in principle move just as quick or quicker than corporate development (and more efficiently too).
The recent interest in Lemmy, largely thanks to Reddit's incompetence, means that not only is the core software moving very quickly but the app scene is growing quickly as well.
I wouldn't say it's a better product, but it is quicky moving in that direction.
I'm so happy user funded and user controlled is a viable market strategy.
The official Reddit app is just a miserable experience. Take away the ads and bugs and I still don’t like it. Navigation, layout, voting are all inferior to Memmy already and the gap is only widening
Agreed! Any time I go back to try it out, it’s a miserable experience. I was spoiled for 6 years or however long it was with Apollo where the user experience was obsessed upon. I’m using Mlem now and it’s refreshing compared to the official Reddit app.
It also works for operating systems ;)
https://kde.org/
Damn.
Is that 2,000 paid employees or does that include moderators?
Of course it doesn't include moderators. Moderators are users.
Also, there are way more than 2000, especially once you call all the very tiny subs that technically have moderators. But even if not, Reddit's biggest treasure are all the niche subs.
Reddit would implode instantly with only 2K moderators. According to this Reddit post, six years ago there were almost 75K moderators working in subreddits with more than 500 subscribers (i.e. this number only includes moderators who actually have to do some work because their subs are decently active). That number is certain to have grown since then.
“Reddit would implode instantly”
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
glad i disembarked that submarine
The "anti evil operations" team is technically paid moderators, but have no idea how big they are.
I do declare, spoken like true landed gentry m’lad.
How much revenue do you think it would generate if streamed on ThreadsLive?!
If you ask a computer engineer, they would say that’s what you get with and without a product/project manager.
I'm a software dev, I can fairly claim to be a software engineer as well
It's not just having a product owner. We have a parable...
A manager asks a senior dev how long it will take him to build a thing. He says 9 months. They ask how long if they get another couple devs on it - he says 8 months. He asks how long if they add a dozen people, and he says it will never be finished
There's plenty of variations, but it's not a joke - how many people built the Linux kernel? How many built C? How many built Apache, how many built transformers, how many built osX?
The answer to the best technologies is always 1 or 2, maybe with helpers. The more people you add, the harder it is to innovate - you can polish all day long, but 1 sharp person can build something better than a dozen equally sharp people. One brilliant person is more effective than one brilliant person with a dozen helpers
It's all about quality, quantity only weighs down the process
At one of my previous gigs our boss was big on the "double the devs/half the time" mentality. Our favorite response was
9 women can't make a baby in 1 monthI think this is somewhat overstated (also a dev), but there's definitely truth to it. The division of work needs to be clear from the start, and ideally the design done collaborative to really have additional devs help.
Part of the problem is we all think different, so even two brilliant devs can step on each others toes and cause problems if they're not synced up on what the plan is.
Linux Kernel is kind of a bad example since its one of the examples of project scaling with many people from many companies. Even if you want to go with its inception, it came from Unix which already had many people. Of course, its also one of the best examples of actual leadership, proper technical people management, which is something very hard to come by. Its also a great example of how to divide your design and make it scalable, so people are working on different parts totally independent on each other.
That's all actual, proper, work, not whatever crappy slide presentation passes as leadership on many places.
Unix has a similar backstory. Prior to its existence, there was a project called Multics aimed at enabling efficient sharing of a computer among multiple users. However, with a lot of teams involved, the project became overwhelmed by excessive complexity and stalled, eventually being regarded as a costly burden and dismantled.
Later, the guys who would later develop the programming language C joined forces and created Unix. They drew inspiration from Multics but took a much simpler approach, and added some innovative ideas. The result was a remarkable achievement.