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Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.

Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.

It’s pretty great if you land the right job. Amazon or meta? Fuck all that. But via my network I found a nice startup (after being at two big fintech companies) that pays me crazy San Francisco bucks while I live in Ohio.

And yeah, I’m very privileged and I’m well aware of it. Especially for a college drop out who majored in English….

Since I’m so privileged I make sure I do what I can to help others though, lots of donations to orgs and I do some volunteering to hand out food to the needy on weekend. It’s to help with the cognitive dissonance and the feeling like “I don’t deserve this”

I get paid well! And at the point I’d left the job we’d gotten everything stable so that the incidents dropped off and weren’t as impactful.

Tech is weird compared to other industries, in that actual mistakes that cause outages aren’t really punished… unless it’s something egregious or you didn’t follow rules like “don’t cowboy stuff in prod, use peer reviewed plans”. It’s generally “blameless” in the postmortems, you take what you learned from it and add to the procedures to make sure that exact issue doesn’t happen again.

In fintech and at scale, you aren’t far off!

I eventually got the damn thing removed at least.

Someone installed this across our 2500 machine entire fleet back in 2013. I wanted to fucking punch him in the dick, especially during incidents where every second matters.

Crazy right? I’m sure AI will solve this for us this year 🥴

Brother I feel that. Half the incidents over the past month have been p90 latency issues because someone pushed a bad query to prod.

That’s why I’m not interested in running any fediverse stuff; maybe a few years ago it would have been fun, but I’m just not in the mood to do work and then do unpaid work.

I will say the Pixelfed app feels pretty damn nice, though.

I mean sure maybe some of the huger instances have more hardware behind em. Mine works well most of the time, but I do run into issues often enough that I feel like we aren’t on par with Reddit.

And I don’t expect it to be, and I’m fine with it. My admin is running it himself for free (to me) afaik, and I like the guy, so I ain’t complaining.

The UX of lemmy on the whole is also worse; seeing the same post fifteen times because someone blasted it to multiple instances and communities does get old.

Guess I’m not allowed to be critical even though I literally said I’m fine with it all. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Relax.

https://midwest.social/comment/15324636

Me. You can’t deny that lemmy and mastodon feel shoddy compared to the big names. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t use the other motherfuckers, but there are tons of times where I reload my feed and it errors or is empty.

Just the nature of running your own services, and I accept it.

But still, anyone coming from Reddit is going to 100% say it feels shoddy.

Ten minutes of profit. They’re in real trouble now.