We are still teleworking full time, and will be at least until next spring, because they are renovating our building - they actually had us come in, clean out our offices and cubicles, and take our stuff home, so we literally have no desk to go to right now (if the need arises we can borrow a desk at another facility, but that space is extremely limited).

Part of the renovation is shrinking our footprint. We won’t be able to all go in at once; there won’t be enough space. So, when (if?) we go back in, 99% of the meetings are going to be us at whatever cubicle we were assigned that day, in teleconferences. Something we could do just as well at home. What’s the point in making people drive in just to do that?

There is a remote work policy being developed and reviewed, and hopefully that will allow me to continue working from home indefinitely.

All of that said, I went to an in-person brainstorming/long term planning meeting for a club I’m in, and THAT worked extremely well in person. We wouldn’t have been nearly as productive having it via Zoom, plus I could sit at meals and ask my fellow club leaders how they were dealing with this issue or that issue. So, I will admit that some things are better in person. But those types of meetings are in the minority - once or twice a year.

Sounds like deleting your comments wouldn’t have done any good, considering others are saying their comments are being undeleted.

You’re correct, though my forum could be archived on the Internet archive (I’m not sure if it is, but it could be).

I agree with your general point though, there are still single points of failure in Lemmy.

There’s a home assistant group on one of the servers, I found it the other day. It doesn’t have the traffic of reddit’s of course, but it does exist. I’d link it but I don’t know how in the app.

I run a site for owners of a very specific model of RV, of which they only made less than 2,000, and who knows how many are still on the road (they ended production in 2000).

There’s also a Facebook group. The Facebook group is good for general conversation - hey, I’ll be in Colorado, anyone near there? - but for technical issues, it’s frustrating, because if someone does answer the question, it’s difficult to find in the future. And Facebook’s algorithms mean that the topics aren’t presented in time order or anything like that, so you can easily miss a post that has something important to you but isn’t a major discussion topic.

And then, it’s all controlled by a company, so if Facebook decides to clean up old stuff tomorrow, there’s nothing we can do. “But it’s so hard to use the forum!” because I have self registration turned off and you have to email me for an account (spammers). Meanwhile the Facebook group gets t-shirt spammers about twice a month.

It drives me nuts.

I believe that is correct; i.e., the $500k is gross, not net. It doesn’t account for his other expenses, either.