My last employer also asked us to put up glassdoor reviews, but that was when they generally had a good image on the site and had received a few (honestly undeserved at the time) negative reviews.

As things changed for the worse, my colleagues and I watched their rating slowly decline over the course of a year and a half. The higher ups quickly stopped mentioning it. They… do not have a good image on glassdoor anymore.

Are you able to submit a new review? I didn’t leave my own review until after I was laid off, so I haven’t bothered to “update” mine.

Do not speak the deep magic to me, witch; I do not understand it.

I don’t know about “be successful”, depending on how you measure success. All of these examples have been subsidized by cheap money for years, undercutting competition - and taking year after year of losses while they do it - for the purpose of capturing the market and driving out competitors, so that they can subsequently enact monopolistic behaviors to start actually turning a profit once customers have no other choice.

The problem is money suddenly got expensive, so now they’re scrambling to find a way, any way, to turn a profit, before full market capture was achieved.

Can services like this be reasonably priced and user-friendly? Sure. Can they “succeed” / become sustainable while remaining so? Current examples indicate that’s where the problem lies.

Total budget is quite high comparative to those numbers.

It does have some weird crypto stuff it promotes/offers after a vanilla install, but you can hide literally all of it. Brave is my daily driver, and looking at my installs you’d never know it had crypto stuff integrated.

I’ve seen a few lemmy discussions on this so far, and honestly the best option I’ve seen is to just ignore Place.

To participate, even to advertise lemmy, we would have to engage, which is what reddit is looking for. Even then, admins will likely take the reigns and prevent any serious effort from being fruitful. There’s just not that much benefit and plenty of downside.

It’s attention seeking behavior. Ignoring it and letting the event fall flat (or at least as flat as is in our power) would send so much more of a message than “join lemmy” or “fuck spez”.

Once upon a time, we had OpenID. You could host your own identity server and log in to websites with it.

Then the social giants introduced third party SSO buttons and OpenID kinda fell by the wayside.

I wasn’t calling you out, just contributing my best knowledge to the conversation 😅

All credit where credit is due, it’s an impressive project. Just some things where I’m like… “this isn’t going to stand up to significant traffic as-is”. I’ve legit considered starting a clone - not least because I’m just not as familiar with rust, yet - but that would be counterproductive to my goal of improving things.

As far as improvements, honestly, if you’re just hosting a small instance with a small user count, you’ll probably be fine. If you start getting significant amounts of traffic, that’s where I see problems starting to arise.

Personally, the instance I’m working on, I’m trying to build to support scaling to multiple geolocated servers (and multiple processes on each server to support traffic) with centralized database and image hosting among them. The docker setup is… not suitable for such 😅 I’d love to see how some of the bigger instances have their architectures set up, to see how much they deviate from the standard.

I’ve only recently started diving into the code and working on standing up my own setup, but so far, as someone who has a bit of devops and architecture experience, the architectural decisions of the project seem less than ideal.

Hoping I’ll be able to contribute some improvements before too long.

The docker compose file in the lemmy-ansibe mainline still has postgres 15, so I’m not seeing any evidence of a downgrade.

What kind of network traffic and disk usage are you seeing with 3500 incoming communities?

I mean, define “too big”.

Lemmy.world and mastodon.world are funded from mastodon.world’s OpenCollective account: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

They seem to be doing alright atm, though who knows how much of that is a byproduct of recent immigration.