IIRC the March peak was another case in which Reddit did something stupid… So yeah, I agree that we can’t just rely on that, at some point they’re going to make it impossible to advertise the fediverse there.

OMG that sounds like a Bell Curve meme. Here you go:

Create more active communities NOT centered around politics or Linux. I swear there’s more things to talk about

Hey! We also have memes!

But yeah, I what I do is subscribe to every non-politics and non-tech community I can find and read through those first, then when I run out I just read “all”.

This time last year there was around 38k active users.

I think this kind of slow growth is fine. We just need enough influx to replace people who naturally leave, and maybe a bit more. We don’t have any CEOs or stockholders demanding exponential growth.

Those are all good ideas. One comment:

I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people.

What I like about Lemmy is that it has a lower percentage of those “normal people”…

Other people have talked about how this is a middle-management job and what that would entail. I’m here to make a couple points:

• reading up on the company is important. See if hey have made LinkedIn posts about the importance of “Digital Development”. Look through their web pages and previous job posts to see if there are people with the job title “Digital Developer” and if so what they did.
• the best situation is: you have a friend at that company who tells you “yeah, they’re looking for someone to …” Next best is someone in that field who tells you “yeah I’ve heard that company is trying to …” or “that company really needs to …” If you go to job fairs, get cards from everyone you can; if you had a card from someone at that company (even HR) you could try emailing or calling and saying “hi it was great meeting you at (place), by the way I’ve heard your looking for a Digital Developer, do you think my experience as A would fit the bill, or perhaps my experience as B?” If you don’t have a card you could try looking at their web page for contact info and emailing them that question.
• a lot of times job postings are vague bc they don’t know wtf they want, they just know they need something that sounds like that. Send a cover letter that emphasizes your managerial experience, and be ready with as many anecdotes as you can about how you successfully crafted visions or identified problems or led teams to implement solutions while getting along with your peers. If you have experience in that field, great, but sometimes companies will be happy with an outsider’s perspective. Good luck, fam!

True story: a temp worker once moved into the desk next to mine, but they couldn’t get their computer monintor just the right height. I told them to go to the library and ask for a book about this size, about so thick. And to pick a color they liked. (they didn’t do it.)

“The books are all broken, none of them connect to social media.”

First color, then size, THEN alphabetical.

In the Clutch of the Octopus

Joe and Frank were the best friends brothers could be. As Frank and Callie’s relationship began to blossom, Joe found himself alone more and more. Iola had gone to summer on Rocky Isle, so Joe thought he should take up an extra hobby. He wasn’t quite sure what that would be. A little soul-searching was in order. So, he set out early one morning on his own to hit some flea markets in the area. That’s when he found the brass hookah. He thought it looked like a many-tentacled octopus. Nargeela, the Turkish merchant said with a smile as Joe handed him the money. He took it home to polish it up and discovered a hidden chamber inside the pipe containing a small chunk of resin. Thinking it was incense, he held it over a candle flame. He found its sweet scent relaxing. Later that week, Frank noticed that Joe seemed absent and detached. He was sleeping late and was easily agitated in the morning. Something had a hold on him.

https://www.beardofbees.com/pubs/The_Hardy_Boy_Poems.pdf (by Eric Wayne Dickey)

Forgive me cat, for I have sinned. It has been two days since I last performed your feeding…

Yeah, at some point it will become just like cable TV, which I don’t watch, so… There’s plenty of other stuff out there.

On the other hand, it reminds everybody how much they hate the US health insurance system. And I mean everybody.

As a point of comparison: in the US, southern racists used literacy tests (and similar approaches) to prohibit Black people from voting for several decades. Obviously current-day Romania is different from the US south 100 years ago, but it is worth considering some of these negative examples.

Your attempt was ill-planned poorly-executed and just plain not nice, Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

Relative: You know about computers, right?

Me: I’m not sure. Who knows about computers, really? In the words of W.S. McCulloch, “What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number?” (if you’ll pardon the gendered language) Now if you extend this to computation…

Relative: All right, STFU, I just wanted to know how to update my Amazon account…

I think that’s the brother-in-law (also murdered) and the sister (mad bc you murdered her husband) too, right? The consigliere’s out cleaning up the fallout from all the murders, and the guy in the doorway I think was murdered bc he betrayed you. Need to make new murder victims friends!

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-cri-evrytiem

That explains the Japanese population crisis…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody