•  Captain Beyond   ( @beyond@linkage.ds8.zone ) 
    66•11 months ago

    I say this as someone who is probably one of the biggest supporters of software-freedom around here, but bullying or shaming people for preferring non-free apps does nothing but incite resentment towards the movement. I value the four freedoms because I think I deserve control of my computing, not because I think it’s my place to dictate what others should value.

    •  Square Singer   ( @squaresinger@feddit.de ) 
      23•11 months ago

      The community is one of the worst aspects when working with/on opensource software.

      There are so many people with Open Source rabies…

      Combine that with all those people who don’t understand the difference between software developed by people who donate their spare time to work on FOSS software and for-profit software developed by big corporations. As a FOSS dev you get so many entitled assholes who think downloading a free app gives them the right to threaten/abuse the devs.

      And then there are the fanboys who attack everyone who talks about downsides of their favourite product.

      All in all, the hostile community makes FOSS development very not fun.

    •  t0fr   ( @t0fr@lemmy.ca ) 
      4•11 months ago

      I voiced my opinion on one of the sync announcement posts and it was received quite controversially.

      We all get stuck in our own camps and become quote tribal and I feel like all around it’s difficult to not take what is being said as some kind of attack.

    •  gkd   ( @gkd@lemmy.ml ) English
      3•11 months ago

      I don’t get why instead of making posts about “Don’t use Sync!” no one is saying “Feel free to use and pay for whatever you like! But as a friendly reminder please note that you should also consider helping your instance owners or the core Lemmy team as well.”

      There’s nothing wrong at all with paying for software, and even some will be fine with ads. It has literally nothing to do with anyone else but that person. Let them do them.

      Like I say though, I think the thing that should be being said is that the app is not self contained and that these people should seriously consider helping out the other aspects as well if they can. But hey, no, let’s just belittle them and push them away instead of welcoming them. I can almost guarantee that the availability of Sync will bring more users to Lemmy that never would have been here otherwise.