Notices by George Lund (georgelund@urbanists.social)

@annehargreaves @GossiTheDog it's very unlikely they hold a database of customers that aren't members, as they don't do online ordering. If you get their loyalty card, you're a member.

@tyil @iftas I doubt that's true, I expect more users are on big or medium servers than all the small ones combined? And if that's true now, still relatively in the early adoption phase, it can only be more true if we want communities where there is no technical or moderation expertise, both of which need to be done properly or not at all

@david_chisnall this argument doesn't make sense to me: graphical user interfaces exist because we don't expect ordinary people to have to program in order to interact with computers. Programming as general UX is rubbish. So it goes that a good conversational interface is inevitable and will one day will be a very common machine interface indeed.

@aral @floppy the salary thing is controversial but there's an ownership structure that can hold management to account and a mission that is not about fidiciary duty to shareholders. That seems OK to me. You aren't gonna develop a secure Web browser without paid staff, that's for sure.

@vanderZwan @aral @floppy do I think there might be cases where an organisation needs to be smaller, but executive pay must rise to be competitive? Yes actually, but I haven't read the foundation's minutes so no, I don't know if it was justified in that case. And Firefox is huge and certainly historically has had Google cash. It makes sense for them to use donations in any way that best fulfils their non-profit objectives.