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?

  • agentTeiko@piefed.socialEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    This is a good answer I will say I wish people that ask simple questions would just ask for a one one chat. Since its not really about the questions getting answered. Its about getting conference and connection with the community. I help out on the Debian IRC and 80% of the tine. They are just excited about joining the community and want a little moral support when they make the jump.