venting, FOSS, nerds
I'm kind of running out of patience for nerds complaining how Matrix is 'terrible' and making exactly zero effort to contribute towards any sort of improvement, even when explicitly invited to collaborate on an effort to do so. And often arguing for switching to proprietary platforms in a context where that really is not appropriate (eg. FOSS projects).
Yes, some people have a good reason to not be able to contribute. I refuse to believe that 100% of nerds are unable to do so. And a lot of the complaining has a very strong undercurrent of "everything must be served to me ready-made and I am unwilling to work to make my neighbourhood better, because that requires effort".
Hey, guess what, building a commons requires putting in work. How about you do your part in making the open platforms better? Instead of making demands of the, like, 5 people who are actually doing something useful about it?
(This was inspired by a comment elsewhere, but not a subtoot of it, this has been grating on me for years now)
venting, FOSS, nerds
@joepie91 im at the point where if element becomes even more unusable to us i might as wel just write my own shitty client lol
re: venting, FOSS, nerds
@schrottkatze I mean, that's a completely fine way to contribute! Or collaborate on an existing one, for example. I personally don't even really care about what particular shape someone's contribution has!
As long as it's not the "everything must be Provided to me" attitude that I see so often.
