It’s the same as with Linux, GIMP, LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. Some people are so used to their routines that they expect everything to work the same and get easily pissed when not.
It’s the same as with Linux, GIMP, LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. Some people are so used to their routines that they expect everything to work the same and get easily pissed when not.
It’s not just that: it is made worse by the fact that, being “free”, resources are limited. For example, Lemmy.world has been experiencing several hiccups and it’s bloody slow at the moment. I get it, it runs on small servers. But the QoS is bad nevertheless; how can you expect the average Joe coming from Reddit to stay here?
Thing is, and this might be pretty rude to say, but I don’t think I want the average Joe with an attention span of a fruit fly that can’t handle pressing the log in button three times without having a little meltdown on to be the driving force behind content and discourse here.
The average Joe coming from Reddit is what made Reddit the circle jerky, “HOLD MY HAT I’M GOING IN/YOU MUST BE FUN AT PARTIES/AMERICA BAD” dip shit fest that it has been for a long time.
I’m OK with these things being not perfect or super fast or not exact copies of Reddit if it blows away some of the chaff.
Every single fucking one thinks they’re the funniest, most original comedian alive when posting one of these variants.