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  • T156@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlWhat a great start !
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    1 year ago

    Has that ever historically been the case? It’s usually been that a technological development results in loss of jobs, as businesses simply reduce their wage expenditure, whilst expecting the same amount, or more work.

    Like how computerisation has massively increased productivity, but wages and working hours haven’t changed to match.











  • They might be passionate about the topic, but wanting to become a moderator for it is a different beast entirely.

    That’s not a small amount of workload, and they might already have a bunch on their plates already. You don’t know that.

    It also doesn’t help that they’re unsolicited. People tend to ignore those, or treat them as spam, since they didn’t ask for a position, and getting pinged by a stranger is weird.



  • Especially for the level of changes that have taken place. Lemmy basically had a major rewrite to move away from web sockets, and Lemmy.world’s operators are running overtime just trying to fix the site up, and make it work for the massive amount of users that they have, addressing a few of the scaling issues in the processing.