I certainly take the comedic value from this. My dad is a classic technophobe. He believes the phone is there for emergencies only, and if a call between him and me needs to happen, he will get my mum to phone. With that, the two times in the past 8 years I have got a call, it has been an emergency... I dread the day he might phone and just go, "Just checking in to see how you are."
So yeah, there is a comical side to this, which I certainly see.
Unfortunately I have witnessed friends and family fall foul in the past. From scammers with ill intentions to sales reps just angling for the bigger bonus.
While scammers are often the hardest to spot and a damn sight harder to come back from, I tell everyone to have a "question first" mindset. My missus only truly adopted that when she was stung. A perfect opportunity for a "told you so" but I took the higher ground. Luckily she got the £650 back, though there was no justice as they hid tracks well. She now questions everything.
Now, sales reps on the other hand, I have had a lot of success with in terms of correcting the sly tactics. Again, I try to instill the "too good to be true" mindset. For example, my in-laws wanted broadband but were going to charge and extra £65 a month plus a £49 install charge. Why? They just wanted the line activated for broadband... they did not want the higher broadband, a call package, did not need a line install or engineer and... wait... did not want the sports channels either. They were so confused about what they had actually agreed to. Basically the rep had taken advantage of pensioners who were confused to upsell.
Unfortunately, it is too easy for a scammer or someone with ill intentions to operate and difficult to always spot them. All we can do as the savvy generation is educate.
Cheers. I thought I had seen mention of banner sizes somewhere but could not remember where. Hopefully this does come in handy.
This is an interesting one. I worked for a digital marketing agency several years ago who had an office in Leeds and London. In Leeds everyone would say hi, have the occasional chat over a coffee and say bye at the end of the day.
Working in the London office was so different, only greeted by the receptionist, no real pleasantries, no chats over coffee and a deadpan look when you get up to leave.
I found it a strange vibe. To be fair, in the same way I realised quickly it is every man for themselves on the tube. Leave the Yorkshire charm on the platform when heading to London.
This is amazing! It has been great to see more and more communities, posts and comments over the past few days.
It frustrated me when Reddit made the initial decision to screw over app developers. Having done dev work in the past, I know the time that goes in to them so someone asking for a little money in return is the least we can do. But no, Reddit just say "Screw you guys"!
As if that was not enough, they are now showing that they really don't care about the many moderators that have painstakingly put years of 'free' time in to building these communities, the same communities that are the foundation of Reddit!
I am sure we are going to see a lot more of these admin takeovers in the coming weeks and it is the very reason I am over here and why Lemmy is seeing the incredible growth curve. Long may that continue.
Shame it had to come to this as the instance was really picking up pace. That said, great work on those involved in structuring a solution. Appreciate the hard work going into it.
As a moderator of a few groups myself and an advocate of Lemmy (especially our homegrown instance), I would be happy to support where I can above just moving the groups over, so feel free to reach out or let us know where the wider community can help.
Cheers.