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Great, now consulting a search engine on questions about vim the text editor will yield equally awkward results as consulting a search engine on matters concerning latex the typesetting system.

Yes, they close the message and then they call support. And then they get furious if nobody can help them without seeing the error message.

IMO error messages should be as short and precise as possible (the typical user doesn’t read past the word “error” before phoning support), with the option of not having them translated (this makes researching a particular error message online much easier). Please leave out “contact so-and-so” crap, because it leads to people excessively contacting that particular person for shit they could easily fix by themselves.

Your mileage may vary, but it’s still possible to install some distros without those nonsensical containerised “package managers”, or to at least remove them after installation. It unfortunately takes an increasing amount of effort, especially in distros that are actively trying to push their flavour of containerised package manager. (Totally not looking at Ubuntu and Snap)

What is working in our favour here is the fragmentation, which will prevent, or at least slow down a too widespread adoption of those systems.

Fake. That’s legible, so it can’t be a legit doctor’s prescription.

A basic awareness test is built into the fediverse, you have to choose an instance to sign up on in order to create an account and participate. This filters out everyone whose intellectual capacity doesn’t go further than tapping “install” in their smartphone’s app store.

I prefer quality over quantity. Spammers, advertisers, “influencers”, brainless users consumers who can’t tell the difference between an “app” and a website, and other “mainstream” phenomena can stay in their corporate internet cesspits. Their absence alone makes a platform a lot more pleasant to use.

10 years here, haven’t modded anything and was mostly active in a few relatively niche subreddits, so, unfortunately, currently Lemmy can’t fill the void quitting Reddit left (yet), but still not looking back.

Not giving the corporate fucks at Reddit any more free content. If you’re living off the community, don’t shit on the community.

Use an ad blocker and the traffic is of little value to them. Especially if it only goes to /r/place and doesn’t allow to create much of a profile.

It would be a shame if someone conspired to coordinate such a thing…