Not me but my partner.

She was working as a research assistant in a lab for several years. She asked her boss if she could be promoted to a research associate, which was one level above her. She already been doing the job of a researcher (3 levels above her). Her boss said that they were in a hiring freeze and that it wouldn’t be possible, but maybe in 2-3 YEARS she might be up for a promotion. Her boss wanted everyone to get the most they possibly could out of their current position before promotion. What my partner heard was that even if she eventually got the promotion to the next level, it might be 5-7 years after that promotion until the next promotion.

I’ve never seen her so angry when she came home. She immediately started applying to new jobs in a different field. She also stopped doing work above her pay grade, to which her boss actually tried to retaliate against her. Within 2 months, she moved onto a new job that is 75% WFM, pays more, has a better culture and is in a field where she can much more easily move upward.

Her former company has started layoffs.

No he didn’t.

He’s announced he won’t be on the party list on the next election, but he’s still going to be the caretaker PM until the next election. He’s still in office, which again, this terrible article makes it sound like he’s not.

The AP source is clearer about this (though the title is still problematic). The Indian news took the AP source and made it worse.

This is poorly written at best and outright misinformation at worst. But maybe don’t source news about Dutch politics from an Indian news source?

Anyway, Rutte resigned the cabinet, he didn’t personally resign. He said “my government can no longer do its job” not " I can no longer do my job".

The way this is written it makes it sound like the latter, where Rutte personally resigned, which is definitely not the case. Especially considering Rutte is blaming literally everyone else for his cabinet collapsing.

Where I live it’s only legal to use the horn to prevent serious situations, so someone doing this could (and would) be fined by police/eventually lose their license.

Even in places where this isn’t directly illegal, is it illegal to make loud noises after certain hours? If so, that could be a reason to call the police or make some kind of official complaint against the driver.

Also, have you tried talking to this person? Maybe they don’t realize that its disrupting literally everyone (a lot of people forget that other people are not just NPCs).

I’m not sure if this backlash will actually cause any change because for businesses it’s a win as long as even one person decides to tip and it costs them nothing to have the option on.

I’m a university lecturer, and this sounds a lot like students who will ask for extra credit/more points because “it can’t hurt”. And if one of their professors/lecturers gives them extra points one time, it’s worth it for those students. To them, it costs nothing to ask, they can only gain, and there are no downsides.

But there are, just not directly. My students think that the worst thing I can do is say no and their score stays the same. But I can also be less lenient in the future (which I definitely am with grade grubbers). I will also refuse to write letters of recommendation or supervise theses for students that do this shit, because I genuinely don’t want to deal with those students anymore.

You are right that it does not directly cost businesses money to have that option. But it can still cost them in the long run. I know I’m less likely to support businesses that pull this bullshit, especially if they try harder to guilt you. Also, it’s increasingly giving the appearance that needing to give tips means that workers are underpaid, so by turning on that option, the business is effectively announcing that they underpay their staff, which is a bad look for the business.

They can’t get to see content that they used to, and despite not creating it themselves, or doing ANYTHING other than consuming it, they feel entitled to access it, as if it were “theirs”.

I completely agree with you.

I was a mod on an advice sub (that I recreated over here), and people would message modmail after posting and say “why is no one commenting on my post”. Like, you aren’t entitled to free advice, you’re asking for it. But people would get legitimately angry whenever they wouldn’t get any advice, or if the advice they got wasn’t what they were looking for.

The thing that made me the most angry were the people who would delete their post after getting advice. Like people wrote comments for everyone to read, not just for you, and then you go and defacto make those comments private?

I fully believe that audience of people does not understand that they aren’t the center of the universe and that there are actual people on the other end of comments…

but things should normalize after that.

There’s a greater likelihood that the content creators are the ones moving. Most of the reddit power users likely used third party apps. Most of the reddit power users are also the ones who wrote most of the comments worth reading.

So if on june 1 most of the reddit power users flee, reddit’s enshitification will have reached a terminal stage. Eventually, reddit will stop having things worth reading, and the lurkers will all move over.

I think we’re in for a long decline of reddit a la facebook. However unlike facebook, there isn’t a market of old people/foreign markets that can fill their user numbers.

That’s not how any of this works…

Communities (as you put, sublemmy) can’t be individually federated, only instances can be. And needing another account is a sign that you are looking at a post on the wrong instance, not a sign that an instance is not federated. In fact, finding out a community is not federated can be pretty difficult unless you check the list of instances that are defederated on another instance.

That’s not a universal link, so you ended up on a different instance. A much simpler and easy explanation than what you came up with.

My NFL team last year gave up its franchise quarterback, and the subreddit basically only talked about the former QB for the entire preseason, and then still talked about it for half the season. Then it died down. And before the protest, he wasn’t really talked about all that much.

Reddit is still fresh in people’s minds. It will go away. In the early days of reddit a LOT of people talked about digg, but within a few months it just wasn’t mentioned much anymore.

A lot of people here spent years on our ex-platform. It’s going to take some time to get that out of our system. In the meantime, enjoy the shadenfreude!

I was a mod on an advice sub on reddit, this is a terrible idea.

It was enough work as a mod to sift through things that actually needed to be reported. For advice, downvotes are needed to express when something is genuinely bad advice. It can’t be up to mods to sift through every single comment, that’d be impossible.

Just fyi, when posting links to communities, you should just use the “/c/” without the link to the instance. Like this: /c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

This is similar to how those links were done on reddit (/r/). The problem with your link is that it is instance specific, which is really helpful for anyone in your instance, but anyone in a different instance will be thrown out of their instance if they click it (they’ll be unable to subscribe).

I explained this in my post: https://lemmy.world/post/149743

Those communities still exist on this instance, they just aren’t synced. You can see new posts from only lemmy.world users. Any posts/comments you make are not shared within the wider lemmyverse.

Effectively that community is a zombie community on this instance. Just unsub from that community, it’s useless to you unless behave decides to refederate.

Yes.

Just explaining how this affects the users here, that’s it. I just said why I personally think this is a mistake.

surely I can do that without both of them needing to give me permission via federation?

So there are whitelist only instances (which honestly is what beehaw should be doing), so if you hosted your own instance, you would need to be whitelisted in order to interact with beehaw communities/users. Otherwise, federation is pretty much a default

Like if I want to set up my own instance and pull posts from lemmy.world and beehaw.org, surely I can do that without both of them needing to give me permission via federation?

Ok, so this requires some understanding of the ActivityPub protocol, and my understand of this edge case is admittedly a bit fuzzy. You can still access that information, you could do it right now just by going to https://beehaw.org, and if you have some mechanism to pull that data, you could still get that data if you wanted to. But critically, that wouldn’t use ActivityPub.

With ActivityPub, your instance would send a request to the community on beehaw to follow the community. The beehaw instance would then send updates to your instance, where they would be stored as a copy. Beehaw keeps the “true” version, as the community is hosted on their instance, but you have your own copy. If beehaw defederates you (or is whitelist only and never federates you), then you can’t send that request (rather, you can send the request, but beehaw won’t listen). So beehaw will not send updates via ActivityPub.

sorry, I had to do a lot of editing in order to get it to post this morning.

Including instances that are also defederated.

Basically, beehaw has decided we can no longer access the “true” version of communities on beehaw. So the versions hosted here on lemmy.world are still visible to lemmy.world users, but that doesn’t update the “true” version, and also doesn’t update other versions hosted on other defederated instances.

It will be interesting to check beehaw communities hosted on defederated instances in a few days. Because the version on lemmy.world will be very different from the version on sh.itjust.works which will be different still from the “true” version.

Maybe read my post on lemmy.world (or another lemmy instance) that all of these are comments on before you make a bunch of assumptions.

You obviously got called out for disregarding the rules of other instances

I obviously didn’t. I like how you just assuming I’m some internet asshole. All I did was write out an explanation for the users of this instance because there was a lot of confusion about what defederation means. Maybe stop being a jerk and making assumptions?

I never said beehaw wasn’t allowed to do what they’re doing, of course they are. You’re the one making that assumption. I said that this will result in more damage to beehaw than to lemmy.world, and it will do more damage still to lemmy as a whole.

Like I told the other dude, I don’t care what beehaw does. I was just explaining the consequences of this action for the users on this instance. Why are you even here? You aren’t in this instance.

I think this action is bad for the adoption of lemmy, that’s why I don’t like it. Beyond that, the beehaw admins can do what they like. If they want to nuke their walled garden/prison, that’s their prerogative. I’m just saying what a bad idea I think it is.