For the unaware, Lemmy is a Fediverse alternative to platforms such as Reddit and Tildes. I've been using Lemmy as one of my main social platforms for the pa...

I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Bruh we just don’t do the addiction painkillers of corporate. Doesn’t mean at all that the pain is the point.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        9 months ago

        The pain is the point. The fediverse expects you to know the right answer, and go through the pain of figuring it out. It could make changes to make finding the answer easier, but new usersare expected to suffer just like existing ones have.

        It’s the same with Linux, you have to know a handful of quirks that could be eliminated, but doing so provides 0 benefits to existing users. No one cares about letting new users have an easier time than they did.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      9 months ago

      Yeah I have seen this plenty in open source. It’s like people don’t want other people to use their software, or they forget a regular user isn’t tech savy and they just want to talk about their hobby, not look around in 50 places seeing where to post.