Two weeks ago I laid off more than 20% of my workforce. I didn’t do it because Cloudflare is struggling. We posted record revenue growth, have strong free cash flow and are adding an unprecedented number of customers around the world.

And since we are doing so great let’s fire 20% of our workforce because obviously they were not a factor in our success. Besides what could possibly go wrong firing 1/5 of our company. Is not like there is lots of tribal knowledge that AI won’t be able to figure out.

Did you use any frameworks for the development? In particular any spec driven development framework?

As someone working on an opensource project myself wondering on a few questions

• How are you doing reviews? Are you reviewing code as it is written or letting the AI do the work and then checking? Or are you mixing AI generation with some code of your own?
• What, if any, framework for Spec Drive Development are you using

What I have found is that the more a human is involved the better the code, but also the slower it is. So, in my opinion, it is a tradeoff between quality and speed.

I have been using sourcehut for mercurial private projects for about half a year without any issues. Also have some a couple of public repos which I develop in Mercurial and then mirror to Codeberg. Only issue I find with sourcehut is that they don’t produce files for users to download. So, if someone wanted something from your repo and they don’t have git / mercurial they would be unable to get the files.

https://www.lunanode.com/ Only one data center in Canada, but affordable and have used them for years without issues. VMs starting at $3.5/month

What is the RSS URL for a given community? Did not know there was an RSS option to read Lemmy communities.

Yes, Scaled seems to be what I need.

That’s what the scaled sort is supposed to solve

Do you know if old threads pop up due to new messages? Seeing two, month old threads, so I guess they just got new posts. Other than that, it seems Scaled is what I need. Thanks

If you go to the community and sort by new you’ll see new posts?

If I went to each individual community this would not be an issue, but that is far less friendly…

This is what I have been doing: I go to the instance I use, discuss.online, and sort by day. That shows me threads with most votes for the day (or however many hours I chose) the issue is that on a busy day, or as the number of subscriptions grow, less active groups get pushed further down in the pages.

Take a look at Restic Not the easiest, but so far as proven to be reliable and performant

People do not even notice things more complicated than buttons “join”, “login”, or “post”. They are lost on join-lemmy.org because >they don’t know why they should choose a server, read description, understand whatever is federation, and they’ll prefer going back >to their comfort zone.

Agree on this 100%. When I first found Lemmy I had no idea what instance to join, why it matter, or… why it really didn’t matter all that much… It was just confusing… and the first instance I joined ended up closing… which was less than an ideal experience as it was without notice and the instance just disappeared. Took me days to even find out why they had closed. Then took me several more days to find the next instance to join.

Federation is both a weakness and a strength in that there may be people who get turned off by that initial complexity.

Then, some people who join may see low volumes on communities they care about and end up not joining.

I think the ideal would be not how to make it “like Reddit”, but how to help niche and smaller communities have more members. Unfortunately, I think the easiest way is just to get more users to Lemmy in general.

It is not just niche topics, I find quite a bit of things that are not (in my opinion) niche, yet there is very little participation in Lemmy. Take for for example Postgresql. By now it is one of the most widely used databases yet there is a minuscule number of posts and users in the related communities.

Another example. Just did a search for largest communities in Reddit… One of them is music with an estimated 38 million redditors. In Lemmy the largest two music communities seem to be 9.9K ([email protected]) and 18.9K ([email protected]). That is an astronomical difference for something that is as mainstream as it gets given the broad topic.

I think the best each one of us can do is to participate and post as often as possible in the communities we would like to see grow.

I would say that you may consider first getting a clearer idea of what you want. For example

• You want some side work to generate some income?
• You want to explore doing consulting for a living?
• You want to find a project, or projects, that you can work on that produce revenue?

From what you wrote I think the fact that you work on so many things may be keeping you from been good at any of them. I recently saw an interview of the founder of Vercel. By the time he was in high school he was already getting job offers because he became know for been good at what he was doing.

I would suggest to try and get clarity on what you want and also remember that this is not a once in a lifetime decision… you can say “hey I want to try X…” and then after you actually try it realize is not what you wanted and then move to something else; the may takeaway is that trying to do lots of unrelated things likely will not help you achieve your goals… unless you could use all those contributions in open source as reference when applying to a job.

The issue is that anyone who looks objectively at the technology knows that AI / LLMs can’t replace knowledge workers in a large set of tasks, yet you see week after week… month after month the pattern

• Some new company says going to replace x% of employees with AI…
• X weeks / months later… said company reports the attempt was a failure and are having to hire people back

It is as the thought of saving the money of firing all those people is too much to resist for “top management”.

You would think after the first batch of companies go through the same, other companies would learn, yet I just keep seeing the same happen again and again.

There is also the potential backslash. Specially if “management” is dumb enough to try and present firing hundreds / thousands of people like a a good thing… for example Duolingo’s case

Have not tried opencloud yet, but one thing that I find interesting is that it doesn’t need a DB. Plan to test. Currently have nextcloud and find the installation a bit of a pain.

My take on the scoring

Very Easy: Multiple easy install methods (e.g., one-command OS package, single binary, and/or Docker). If only one install method it should be single binary or OS package. Great documentation. 18–20 points

Easy: Limited easy methods or only one. Some configuration may be needed, good documentation. 15–17 points

Moderate: Docker is the only method or manual setup. Average to pool documentation 11–14 points

Hard: Complex setup, needs regular updates or custom config (e.g. DNS, spam) 6–12 points

Very Hard or Proprietary: Little to no self-hosting support, undocumented 0–5 points

Have you considered a distributed filesystem such as GlusterFS or DRBD? I believe those support synchronous replication so writes will go to all the configured machines before acknowledging the write. Performance will likely take a hit the greater the number of clusters in the cluster.

Remember wifi can be an issue, even if you don’t have anything exposed outside. If you have a router that comes with a weak password ensure you have changed it.

Full points for Docker

In my opinion anything that only has docker installation should have points removed. Having it as an option is fine,but having it as the only option has several issues

1- Not every OS even has docker. Take for example FreeBSD

2- Many, non technical, people may not have or even know what Docker is. Having it as the only install option actually ads complexity for that group of people

3- Having to install docker for only one system that you want to install adds an entire layer of complexity and in some cases may even outright discourage someone from installing some software

And post as much disinformation as they want without “censorship”.