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Not hating on open source, just let people use what fits their expectations and needs and stop deterring them with gatekeeping :P

UX = user experience

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

The Lemmy protocol is open source and you're free to use an open source solution. You're free to use sync for Lemmy in much the same way you can run a Spotify client in Linux. One does not destroy the other.

Tldr if you don't like it, don't use it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

but shouldn't I go online and complain about it loudly?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

How will anyone know I exist if they can't hear (or read) my bitching?!?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but only if you agree with the other people who are complaining loudly, otherwise it’s hardly worth the time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah yeah, but OP made a post about it so I thought I'd add some of the reasoning behind people being that way. I don't care what app people use as long as I can use the one I like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You're free to use sync for Lemmy in much the same way you can run a Spotify client in Linux. One does not destroy the other.

I don't understand these mini-Stallmans and their identical attitudes like this. One Stallman is enough, please develop a personality and realize that things do come in shades of grey.

I contribute to FOSS projects & I love Linux and have been using it professionally for a couple of decades, but I'm never going to stand up an LDAP server on it when Active Directory exists, the same way I'm never going to use Windows as a Docker host or a network load balancer.

Use the best tool for the job, don't be a zealot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The mini Stallmans have been waiting for the Mach kernal for 4 decades, it was bound to drive them a little crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

As much as those atrocious combinations give me the shivers, especially docker on Windows, we really should be advocating for the freedom of choice (even if that choice might be the wrong one). People should be free to do what they want, and such freedom should be celebrated.