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My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog (jewy.blog)

submitted 8 months ago by gabe@literature.cafe to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I made a blog post discussing my biggest issues with Lemmy and why I am kind of done with it as a software.

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[–] gabe@literature.cafe 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only thing I really have to add is on the topic of toxicity. Like you, I’m an instance admin and have a bird’s eye view of a lot of behavior patterns. I’ve recently started wondering how many people are here because they’re too toxic for regular social media rather than because they want to be here. I won’t guess an actual number, but I would say it’s not insignificant.

That's unfortunately a big issue with alternative social media platforms and without tools to combat them it goes bad really bad. I agree completely.

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly coming here and starting my own instance and providing help for other instances and stuff has reignited my long lost love of computers and open source stuff. The passion for it is thankfully coming back.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 11 points 8 months ago

That was me with developing. I used to do it as my day job before moving to infrastructure - now all I develop at work are scripts and the occasional lookup tool.

I do kinda wish I'd chosen something other than NodeJS to be my daily driver, lol, but it does what I need well enough. Haven't really had a base it can't cover (yet?).