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Is complaining to open source project maintainers getting normalized ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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And how can this be improved ? Should "normies" be pushed into RTFM or ELI5 ?

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 13 points 6 months ago

Dealing with unhinged people has been around since as long as the internet. There was a period of time before the general population got online when it was mostly academics and military people, the level of discourse was higher. But useNet still had the crazies.

I think the federated systems and GitHub allow people to participate more, so the barrier to entry is lower, so we get to see more of this emotional labor then we used to historically.