100% this. The Linux community seems very hostile to people trying to learn. The amount of times I’ve looked something up just to find a thread answered with “learn how to use search” or people just being outright mean to someone who is just figuring the basics out…
The year of the Linux desktop is never until the community gets its toxic shithead problem under control.
It’s a very quick way to end up in an echo chamber, Lemmy is a very niche platform. I try to keep up with Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon. Not a huge amount better, but it’s a bit more variety than one tiny service.
I’m in the same boat, I’m not migrating again unless shit really goes downhill.
Lemmy gives the vibe of “it’s all or nothing, be ready to change at a moment’s notice if something iffy gets said”
Matrix needs more time in the oven before it’s ready for widespread adoption.
I really did try to make it work (for months) but it’s a buggy and unpolished experience, everyone that tried it with me ended up going back to Discord and Signal for communication.
I tried my hand at running a Matrix server with a couple of friends. Less than successful. Constant bugs and minor irritations that most people (and myself, eventually) don’t want to deal with.
From notification problems, to decryption problems, to audio calls not working if the app isn’t open on the screen for the entire call…
I really like the idea of Matrix, but it needs another few years in the oven before it’s even remotely acceptable to recommend to friends or family. Most people have a hard enough time switching to something like Signal because battery optimization kills notifications, let alone something as convoluted as Matrix/Element.
Sounds like Calgary to me. They locked all the train shelters one year so that the homeless couldn’t use them… or anyone else… in -40C…
Everyone is free to enjoy the holidays, working retail kind of sucked the life out of it for me personally.
By the balls of my ancestors, life really is gonna go down the shitter soon ain’t it?
The one thing Google still has over Duck for me at this point is reddit results. So much niche information is stored on that site, but they’ve blocked anyone other than Google from crawling the site so other engines can’t index past the point they changed that policy.
Sorry for the delayed, haven’t checked Lemmy in a bit. This is a topic I very much want other perspectives on.
It’s not distro specific, more so when I’m looking for help with specific issues that are often not distro specific. I don’t really post to ask, I look for solutions first and then ask after exhausting all other options.
Doesn’t really matter where I end up; some distro’s forum, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Lemmy, etc. I always end up finding dickheads telling the OP to learn how to use search or berating them for not understanding the issue enough to provide the exact information they want (yes, they can’t help without the right info but they don’t have to be dicks about it). Or they’re just super condescending when giving an answer. I tune them out and scroll past for the actual answers, but they’re there in a good chunk of posts I find.
I can see how it would be incredibly discouraging for someone making the leap for the first time. Tech communities often forget how little the average user knows about computers.