the_dunk_tank

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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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This is the guy who expects us all to listen to him about how AI works (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sure you can build and maintain a Twitter clone with 10 devs, but when you've got hundreds of millions of users you have to have several dev teams working on it. You have a resposnability to patch the hundreds of issues that come and to "develop" (read: enshittify and bloat) your platform.

Lemmy is a reddit-lookalike (although much better IMO) but it has so few users and bloated features compared to average projects that I think 10 full-time salaried devs would be more than enough, but reddit proper has hundreds of employees.

Also these are the kind of people who think they can be cheap and hire a handful of "10 x full-stack devs", pay them as much as an average programmer to save money, and then post the classic "nobody wants to work anymore" shit when they either can't find them due to shit compensation or they quit from stress due to being understaffed and underpaid.