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Is LJ okay¿? (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
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The app has not been updated in more than a month and LJ also has not been active on lemmy and this community for nearly a month. Is he okay¿?

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

With the way the Lemmy community treated him for releasing a "non-FOSS" app, I wouldn't be surprised if he bailed. I would've.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    FOSS is lemmys greatest strength and its biggest flaw. Too much foss nerdery on lemmy and it's boring the average folk.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    I wouldn't say boring, I'd say frustrating. You cannot use Lemmy for any kind of tech support if you're not using Linux or FOSS software.

    If you make a post asking for help with a software you need, someone will ignore you and tell you to use some garbage ass incomparable FOSS version. Use anything not Linux? Use Linux, idiot.

    You pay for YouTube premium because it's $5 per month using the family plan, and you're okay with paying a few bucks for entertainment? Go die from cancer. Actually, though, someone called me a racist and a Holocaust denier for saying I pay for YouTube premium since I split it between my family, and it's pretty damn cheap. Their comments were heavily upvoted and mine were downvoted.

    Lemmy genuinely isn't fun anymore. It's so incredibly toxic.

    Oh ya, don't forget the fuck cars community telling me it's my fault my city doesn't have great public transit? Like bro, I moved here a year ago. This city was built hundreds of years ago. How the fuck is that my fault?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You were probably initially downvoted for generalizing and the fact that Google is already doing fine for servers and barely pays creators.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Not to mention the fact that many people don't know what FOSS means, given that it's not used widely outside programmer circles and nobody ever defines the term.

    I'm still hoping we get more of the general population on lemmy to help it grow, rather than only be filled with programmers.

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  • [+] -19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or, "I wish I wasn't getting death threats, posts about me attacking my character, all because I released a really good app but included ads so I could get paid for it".

    So again, for the millionth time, Lemmy nerds expect everything to be free and without ads. That's not how life works, and you throw a hissy fit like a child.

    You're going to ruin Lemmy. Enjoy it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Learn to read. Thanks.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I never said you made death threats. You responded to my comment, "joking" that the developer grabbed his money and bailed. Your original comment to my comment perfectly encapsulates how FOSS users treat him. You accused him of running away after getting money.

    Even if he bailed, it wasn't for the small flow of cash. It was because of how the FOSS users were treating him. You are welcome to go look at all of the previous Sync posts back when Sync launched, seeing the thousands of comments bashing him for putting ads in the app, and calling him very mean things.

    I also never said Lemmy is dead. I said people like you are going to ruin Lemmy. Learn to read.

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