An update, some of you might remember we had federation issues with Lemmy.world. For a long time now we have had a second server in Finland that Lemmy.world was pointed at, then that server would pass the activities in bulk to our Lemmy.nz server in NZ. This has worked for a long time to prevent a delay federating all the Lemmy.world content.

A recent version of Lemmy added a way to send activities in parallel. Lemmy.world has turned this on, and not long ago this morning have started sending the activities directly to the Lemmy.nz server again, bypassing the extra one.

Let me know if you see anything strange, but it does seem to be working from what I've seen monitoring it this morning.

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just started a new job this week.

Damn tech work has been a wild ride! From the hights of 2021 where if you could use a keyboard without looking then you could land a Senior Engineer role easy peasy. To 2025 where recruiters ask you to build a whole damn website then throw out your weeks worth of work because you used spaces instead of tabs in your code telling you "you wont integrate well with the team".

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well it sounds like you dodged a bullet if the team uses tabs not spaces. Insanity!

Congrats on the new job. Money for IT projects seems a bit hard to come by at the moment. Though interestingly I've seen recruitment fail to get any suitable candidates for higher level roles. I wouldn't like to be leaving uni looking for a first job right now, that's for sure.

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tabs vs spaces is a little bit of an exaggeration. But it was a number of jobs where they dont tell you what it is they are looking for and you just are ment to glean it by reading tea leaves or some such.

One that stands out was an interview with Octopus and they tell me "solve this problem" and i write legitimate code that solves all cases of the problem and fully unit tested and they send an email saying "sorry we were looking for code in a more functional programming style. We are not continuing with this application". I was mad... If they just told me that i would have written it like that.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I get why it's necessary but outside of programming jobs are there other job applications that require you to do actual work? I'm not a programmer, have done dozens of job interviews and have never done work outside the interview outside of preparing the job application.

I've done tests at the interview (excel, and a written maths test for one a long time ago) and I've done psychometric tests but nothing is quite the same as having to build an entire project with a high chance of getting rejected.

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago

Unsure. I have really only seen it in programming. I dont think accountants get told "here balance these books before we proceed with the rest of the interview" designers and architects maybe asked to show a portfolio of work though.

[–] DevotedOtter@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, is it possible to see how many members there are subscribed here?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yip! The sidebar tells you the number of subscribers in a community. If you're using an app it might be shown somewhere else, but on the website it's in the sidebar and in Voyager it's shown when you choose the option to see the sidebar.

The answer is about 1,800 subscribers to c/newzealand. 340 users active in the last month (you have to vote, comment, or post to be considered active. Looking doesn't count).

[–] AWOL_muppet@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow, thats a lot!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I reckon so! I wish more would participate 😅

[–] shellieg@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm a lurker who just figured out I have bad social anxiety which affects posting/commenting, so now I just need to come up with some strategies to overcome that 😅 Also based overseas so feel like a lot of what I would share is not very relevant...

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 days ago

I used to be like that on reddit. Coming here I decided I'd just say things that came to mind. If it doesn't resonate with people then they don't reply and no harm no foul, but very often it triggers replies and conversations. I think it's a great way to get value out of lemmy.

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

481 local subscribers! But only like 10 people I see regularly posting.. 🙁

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'll admit I mostly lurk, I find typing and image handling are a pain on a phone. And I only comment if I have something on my mind, so I mostly just reply to interesting things other people say. And often not even that because halfway through slowly (mis)typing on a phone, I realise they likely don't care and it's not really worth it.

But hey, I'm still here!

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 days ago

Oh I agree on the image handling on mobile, actually I find it annoying doing most things on mobile. I usually wait until I'm on laptop or desktop. Unless I'm just commenting, like this!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah I think it's pretty normal for only a small proportion of people to post and comment. I think many of the local users are no longer around, we are a couple of years in so many people have drifted away over that time.

[–] DevotedOtter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cheers, found it. Actually more than I expected!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think it's pretty normal for the people who post and comment to be only a small portion of the total users. Many more will be voting but otherwise lurking.

The active users will also include people who aren't subscribed but just stumbled upon a post in the All feed.

[–] DevotedOtter@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yea, I'm one of those who mostly lurks.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well feel free to check in and say hi from time to time, we generally don't bite 🙂

Lemmy doesn't have much in the way of tracking users, so if you don't speak up we won't know you're here!

Lurking is of course fine too.

[–] DevotedOtter@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'll see what I can do. I'm generally the same on reddit too.

Although sometimes the political posts get to me and I need to vent......

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Haha I get the needing to vent. I do try to post nonpolitical stuff as with the politics in the world at the moment the political content can easily outnumber the rest and that's not particularly helpful for mental health.

[–] DevotedOtter@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Oh definitely. I just deleted the reddit app from my phone, following all the major other socials. So now if I want to, I have to log in on a browser.

I have the same instances followed here as reddit, but it seems much better for my mental health some how

[–] DevotedOtter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, found it. Cheers! Actually more than I expected