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This is equally as infuriating to me as the rising cost of stamps. 😐

If you are going to pretend to have scruples then at least pretend to have standards, or dignity for that matter. 😂 If you are so involved (even in the most modest terms) in the ecosystem of predatory games like World of Warcraft, to the point that you are even tenuously aware of news relating to them then you deserve all of it.

So is revanced. I haven't been able to skip an ad in years... 🤭

Lamps were "total disasters" until they weren't. Crosswalks even. Toilets in Seattle.

There are lots of things that were "total disasters" at one point but were developed into safe reliable things. That's not a reason to abandon an endeavor entirely, but a great reason to redirect or refine it.

Also, headlines are not news, and most non-electrical engineers, let alone journalists, know jack fucking shit about electrical engineering. EEVBlog did a great few videos about solar roadways and their flaws.

How could Last of Us get any scarier? Make all the infected also the corrupted machines from Horizon Zero Dawn. Awesome.

How are they opposed to bread? It's impossible to keep up with politics these days. And you can never tell if you're reading an actual post or just more big leaven lobbyist propaganda.

And the free of the brave 🫡

You:

if people are telling you "this is not for beginners", maybe it would be wise to listen to it?

Also you:

I'm among one of those

So, What gatekeeping you ask? You. And what few you say? Still you.

But don't let me be the judge on whether or not you are an insufferable prick. So take a peruse around your own post. Let's see how you fared...

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You still haven't answered my question

And I'm not going to. It has nothing to do with the point that I was making. It has nothing to do with the quip that I started with. I came neither here nor to you to get advice. I made a sarcastic comment that you literally just confirmed. Thank you.

And the consolidation and gatekeeping of resources to the few seems just a tad antithetical to the entire foundation of decentralization.

From join-lemmy.org:

self hostable, easy to deploy

"people" are telling me that this isn't easy, but Lemmy seems to think it is. Good luck arguing your way out of that paper bag.

Look, I hear what you're saying. And no offense intended, but people like you crow about things like fediverse not being supported... All the while, these applications are not supported by their own developers. And unfortunately, not unlike the majority of my experiences with Linux issues, every time I reach out for help I'm told the same old hat story, "this isn't meant for beginners".

And the "pains that come with learning about self-hosting" are so unnecessary and in my opinion quite apparently avoidable.

"Well, did you change the port number to this number that isn't referenced anywhere in the documentation? It's pretty obvious to anyone that's been doing this for 20 years - who would be able to recognize that it's a step everyone would need to do to deploy - so there's literally no conceivable reason why that would be included...

###IN THE TUTORIAL

...Maybe you shouldn't be doing this."

Well, as someone who has been trying to launch a functioning Lemmy instance for nearly a year now, I can tell you, knowing not the slightest thing about funkwhale, that I would eat my hat if the documentation isn't an all but absent shit show.

My favorite part was learning that my domain was creating a completely new cert from lets encrypt with each deployment and no way of recovering them at all. So after 5 attempts, you have to wait 60 days (or whatever) for them to expire. That was awesome. I messaged the devs about that one and they literally said "we didn't think of that"... 😑

And so much shit goes tits up if you don't deploy it perfectly the very first time. Don't get me wrong, I love the fediverse, but JTFC I hate the fucking fediverse.

Lol, unexpected intensity. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

It's the closest to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic they've ever been. But I'm sure they'll outdo themselves tomorrow.