Every community I care about is dead

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The app I use (Eternity) has options for 15/30/60/etc mins. You can theoretically get notifications every second if you set up your own RSS reader to check that quickly (though be considerate of your instance’s resources). Before I settled on my current solution I had an RSS reader check every so often and ding a desktop notification when it found something. I use 30 minutes because if I’m using Lemmy I’ll see the notification alert anyway, and if I’m away from Lemmy I don’t want to be notified potentially every 15 minutes when people keep replying.













  • None of this is your fault, this is your company being garbage. Putting you in charge of all these responsibilities with a ~year of experience is a big red flag. Your project manager asking you to estimate your percentage work done is also ridiculous - people can barely get decent estimates with fully-dissected agile pointing, so I’m not sure how a “project manager” thinks that your guesses are useful data. If you’re not getting paid at least 6 figures right now you should hop to another job immediately. It won’t look bad on your resume to hop from your first job after a year and a half.

    I personally wouldn’t stay with a company like this even if they paid fairly because the culture is borderline toxic/manipulative. I wouldn’t recommend you stay but the only reason I see in favor of staying is that you’ll learn a lot really quickly - at the expense of your mental, not being paid fairly, and potentially being fired.