Many people here get quite touchy when it comes to politics and such, but outside of that it’s pretty nice that I can pretty much post about whatever interests me and people show up in the comments being encouraging and genuinely curious.
So many times in real-life interactions I start talking about something I’m into, only to realize the other person doesn’t really get it or just isn’t interested so I just then steer the discussion to other things. Over time you learn to keep all that stuff to yourself, and it almost starts building up inside you. Then you end up dumping it on someone again and immediately regret it, which then just reinforces this negative loop.
Not here though. I could probably start making animal figures from pine cones tomorrow and posting them, and it’d likely hit the “front page” with dozens of comments in no time.
It’s almost like there’s this inner child in me who still wants to play, but that’s embarrassing so it needs to stay hidden from “normal” people. Still, I suspect pretty much everyone is hiding that same part of themselves, and we’d all be a lot better off letting it out and not taking ourselves so seriously all the time.
Except if you mention anything positive about Windows, or ask a question about it. Then they become hateful and petty.
Why would you ask a Linux community about Windows?
Would you go into an iOS community and ask questions about Android? It makes no sense.
Like 80% of the Linux community got actively driven away from Windows because of the abusive environment that it creates.
You’re coming to someone’s wedding and insisting on talking about their ex, of course they’re testy about it.
“You’re coming to someone’s wedding…”
Yeah maybe if you post it in the Linux communities that makes sense, but I see this in almost every community on Lemmy. I’m sorry but they don’t own the Fediverse and shouldn’t be dictating it. To that end, they are very toxic.
In fact, we literally do own the fediverse. Power to the people. There is no corporation in charge, Lemmy is and is hosted by its users. Every instance you interact with is probably hosted on a Linux server. The fediverse is made up of primarily Linux users. We are here specifically because we reject the corpo-first nature of the technological community at large, Windows is a huge part of that.
If you want to talk about Windows then make a Windows community. But don’t be surprised when the average Fediverse user outside of that community has nothing nice to say about it. Microsoft is antithetical to the values that built this website.