LB about how Linux missionaries berating people for not knowing terminal aren't helping their "just use Linux it has a GUI" cause:
Ah, so that's why people onhere who proselytize about the fediverse and "don't understand why more people don't use it" are so shitty about constantly "suggesting" that people should spin up their own instances the second they experience anything unpleasant here. They are just used to being judgy condescending technoelitist shitnuggets.
@Sharksonaplane wait, there's people who both talk about how Linux has decent GUI options *and* berate people for not knowing how to do terminal stuff? 😭
@hazelnot I feel like it's people who talk about GUI options just to appease people they're talking to whose problems they don't actually care about. In the analogy they're the people who say "if you don't know where to get started it's fine, just join any instance!"
In their heads, "making the sale" is more important bc, I think they think (if they think at all) that once onboarded, people are going to "naturally" just "want" to learn more or whatever. No consideration for actual pain points.
trying to understand the phenomenon described
Hmm, I do also sometimes give the advice to "just join any instance to start with and move later if wanted", but for the opposite reason; to provide some relief from the onslaught of nerds expecting people to be interested in the nitty-gritty details when someone is just looking to get an idea of what it's like, especially during new user peaks.
I do give them some guidance on where to find instances that aren't going to be awful, and offer to help with any issues they run into, and I guess there are people with the "making a sale" mindset who don't do that part? Do they do so towards people already looking to try out fedi, or do they try to pull in people who have never heard of it?
I'm asking because although I've definitely seen the phenomenon in the original post, I haven't seen the thing described in this reply, at least not with those motivations. Perhaps I overlooked it.
