• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I remember when I first tried to use Mastodon and struggled with how best to make it work, so I asked what was probably a basic question to the Enlightened™. Instead of being helped, I was met with “it’s easy, maybe you’re just dense?”.

    Then I thought that maybe Mastodon doesn’t have the kind of people I’d want to interact with on it.

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      1 day ago

      Unironically, this makes me pine for the old days where usenet discussions were lively.

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        1 day ago

        Mm, reminds me of the old world of IRC. I still remember fondly when I asked for help installing FreeBSD, and got banned with a message of “try linux”.

        So I did, never looked back. (Until I got a Mac at least, which counts as a BSD.)

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      I’ve never see anyone respond with hostility to any ‘how to’ question on mastodon. What you’ve described sounds totally unlike anything I’ve seen there. So if you have a link to your discussion, I’d be interested in seeing how that happened.