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[-] antik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We changed the default view for new users on LW from "local" to "all" communities a few days ago.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Interesting, hopefully new joiners won't stumble directly upon communities that might push them away ha ha

[-] antik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine joining thanks to Boost and the first thing you see is "boost? Ewww go away, use Foss"

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Don't get me started on this, FOSS gatekeepers can really have a detrimental effect on the platform.

I love FOSS as much as the next guy, but if my cousin is asking me support for an Office issue, I'm not going to tell them to install LibreOffice.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Same. Using Linux and FOSS for over 20 years but that Boost announcement thread was toxic. We just started removing those comments and banning them from the community. Those people don't see those 1000 people that came here thanks to boost will now more than likely come across Linux and Foss related subjects anyway. No need to push it down their throats and push them back to reddit.

Honestly there are people doing this because they know it annoys people.

Ofcourse there were people calling me a "poweradmin" because of it, but I have thick skin ๐Ÿ˜ And a large banhammer ๐Ÿ˜

this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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