That doesn’t apply to Linux communities on Lemmy though, but I meet a lot of Linux communities, that are toxic and beginner-unfriendly. People, who have voluntarily decided to maintain a community, behave like I broke into their house at 3 AM with my questions. If I ask a question, there will be a 20% chance to get any relevant response, but a 100% chance of being nagged with some bullshit. It especially applies to the behaviour of mods. For instance, a dude was messing with me because I have searched for a binary on the official internet database, instead of quering it via package manager.
I wish I could just avoid junkyards like that, but I can’t: I haven’t found another active community for Void Linux.
As far as I can tell from my experience, it is something specific to Linux or IT communities.
So why is it like this?
I have not noticed much toxicity in the linux communities but im not exactly new to it. Personally one thing I have mentioned when talking about people moving to linux is that many things now have a debian distro download option next to the windows and mac. Most linux systems will use it to bring up the gui of the package manager. I am kinda glad I used unix systems enough before they got so simple as it is nice to have the command line options. they are not necessary though. My only thing is if someone is going to use linux like windows you have to be at a level where you could install windows and then if your not going to be looking to learn much you want to grab an out of the box distro.