It became the post of the year on Reddit that year. I bump into it from time to time in the interwebz. :)

Hah! I didn’t even notice. Debo wasn’t available on Reddit 15+ years ago when I joined so I actually added the “re”. It took the rise of Lemmy for me to use my preferred nick. :)

lol. I’m the one who coined the term after Wadsworth came up with the concept!

There’s some new research that shows raising pay is not great for retention. Studies say it’s better to take that money and put it into a long-term benefit line a pension, profit sharing, while life insurance with a cash out value, etc.

Raises and bonuses had about a 3-month effect.

How much power are you consuming in the closet?

Right? Imagine having EVERYTHING you EVER contribute online be 100% controlled by YOU and YOU alone. There’s a framework here for a whole host of businesses…

Imagine just one where a subject matter expert can sell their ‘membership’ to a platform based on the strength of their history with other platforms…. Almost like a paid Wikipedia where the value of the platform is conveyed to the users that created the content. huh, imagine that.

Seems to me that this is the ONLY way that a user (let’s call them creators for the sake of this convo) can guarantee that their efforts are always both protected AND remain available as the creator sees fit.

If I start my own lemmy server and I’m the ONLY user, it would stand to reason that if I deprecated that server that all of my posts EVERYWHERE would instantly cease to exist (with exception of quoted posts in other’s comments). That gives me 100% of control over MY specific content contribution to this platform. So, if in the future lemmy goes the way of reddit, it’s as simple as us staging a walk-out just like we did to reddit, except NOTHING would show up on reddit anymore.

Am I missing something here? For true creators, spinning up a cheap server to host is acceptable if not expected if you want any type of control after the “Post” button is pressed.

These look like car wash towels to me.