TechConnectify@mas.to - Oh my gosh I just figured it out.
Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people who are talking about a problem with whatever commercial software they use and suggest Your Favorite Alternatives™ is exactly like saying “why don’t you just buy a house?” to someone complaining about their landlord.
TechConnectify@mas.to - Actually, to borrow from @DoubleA, it’s worse than that.
It’s like talking to someone who is in a crappy apartment as though they have the agency and skills to stake out a plot of land and build their own home.
You have to be at peace with the fact that some people just want to exist and not worry about so many things. And they still have a right to complain about their situation.
Link to thread: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/111539959265152243
Guy wanted to vent about smart thermostats, explicitly said he doesn’t need advice and got bajillion responses with advice, mostly from FOSS folks who couldn’t contain themselves. I’d be annoyed too.
When I say “don’t think of a panda”, what do you think of? Pretty much the same thing with saying “don’t recommend me FOSS options” lol
No. Thinking about the panda is involuntary in that scenario. Typing up and submitting an explicitly unwanted response is not involuntary. It’s a thing a person chooses to do expressly against the wishes of the person making the request.
Ya, implying recommending FOSS options is an involuntary action was tongue-in-cheek.
I’m on lemmy. Obviously, I think about Marxism-Leninism.
Not Motorhead?
https://charlies-names.com/en/lemmy/
That’s the biggest annoyance with mastodon
I’ve seen multiple people on Mastodon mention that while follower numbers were way lower on Mastodon, general interaction was much better.
Unfortunately, the internet is full of annoying people. Higher engagement isn’t always good, especially if you’re “internet famous”. It doesn’t help that Mastodon has very little design considerations for dealing with popular accounts, treating every account as if you’re only following your friends and family.
Came to the same realisation myself. The whole “just friends having lunch together” vibe that mastodon aims for simply breaks down at a certain scale, which means is essentially unsuitable as a Twitter replacement for all that looking for that.
The lack of any feed/notifications management then means that you get subjected to all the annoying randos as though they are your friends or neighbours.
Which, coupled with a culture of purism and gatekeeping and HOA-ing leads to what can be a genuinely toxic culture. Not for everyone all the time but enough of the time for some to have found it awful and left.
But not enough talk about this. It’s designed as a suburban social media where you chat to friends and neighbours. Push it beyond that and you’ll have problems.
Oh yeah I think that generally mastodon is far nicer
Like Lemmy, there are nice parts of Mastodon and less nice parts of Mastodon. I’ve managed to avoid all the shitty parts myself but there are a few open source-oriented servers that are toxic as hell.
It was for me too because I wasn’t following anyone. As soon as I started following people that had strong opinions about technology and politics, well…