All I ever got for trying to help on that sub was called an elitist and have people go through my comment history to prove them selves and its the linux community thats toxic
Sssshhh. You'll start a Wayland vs X flame war talking like that. And before you know it's the GNOME vs KDE, sysvinit vs systemd, and Emacs vs vi folk will show up. Or worse yet, Linux {{insert distro}} users vs other Linux{{insert distro}} users.
It means people see the same post over and over because they’ve subscribed to multiple related communities. Nobody’s doing anything wrong but the effect is really annoying. Probably the real solution is for clients to be smarter about displaying redundant posts.
Not everyone is subscribed to all of those communities though. I just checked which ones they were posted to and I’m only part of this one. I would not have seen it if it wasn’t crossposted here
If you want to cross post to different communities, then maybe, but cross posting to all the other technology communities seems awfully redundant and spammy. With how lemmy works, if someone is subscribed to one technology community, they're likely subscribed to others.
I’ve read many times that letter shapes aren’t subject to copyright in the US (or, as far as I know, most other countries) but font names can be trademarked. That’s why you can get freeware knockoffs of a lot of popular fonts where everything but the name is identical to the real thing.
Honestly I hope it remains small enough to not attract influencers and low grade content, but also large enough to become a significant source of useful searchable info. It’s a pipe dream but hey
Right now, I love the size and the community feel. It’s as if we are all trying to make this place our home, so we are all figuring it out together, posting often and engaging. I know it won’t last forever, but I’m enjoying it while it is lasting.
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