That's for sure. But just as an example a friend of mine wanted to move away from reddit but found lemmy too confusing with how people explained it. If nobody is there to actually tell him how simple it actually is he'd never move over here.
Anyone from Lemmy explaining how it works on reddit with 3 paragraphs is writing 2 and a half paragraphs too many to actually get people to move here.
and mastodon just can't have the social network with how confusing it is to a normal user, just like lemmy.
Decentralized platforms will never take off as long as people talk about how it works, you just need a URL with a sign up function that works and an app you can install, log in to and it works. That's what a normal user wants.
Thanks for explaining, I always find it weird why they rebrand instead of making their name global but I guess it makes sense if the market wants it that way.
Same with takeaway being called grub hub, loved that one when I found out 😂
Sadly people like this have been there at every corner when I talk about my issues/reasons for not switching (yet). I still want to, but also think this turns off a lot of people.
That was also my guess certainly with an nvidia GPU. My next pc will be AMD based partially because I really want to make the step to Linux
The games were gold or platinum on protonDB and run fine on my steam deck
Steam / Lutris said they're running, nothing shows up.
Your edit is another reason I actually rather stay away from Linux instead of giving it a chance / asking for help. The community feels way too elitist and insulting to anyone not praising it.
I gave up on switching to linux after losing 2 entire evenings setting it up (linux mint) just for my games not to run and not a single solution I could find working.
I'll give it another try once I buy my new PC and set that up, but Linux is not as plug and play as windows and I totally understand that non-IT people want to stay away from it now. The community makes it sound as if everything is almost out of the box simple but that is not the case at all.
Did my phrasing imply they're not? I said a fairer company, they're open about being for profit and are made in the EU with proper GDPR compliance (you never know with american companies, just look at the recent fines for apple and facebook)
Depends on the level of tired. Currently if I have enough energy I'll contribute to openstreetmap by adding some missing buildings, parkings, opening times, etc. If I don't or I'm in bed I scroll tiktok
Ok so personally I really wouldn't mind having some non-tracking ads in a banner somewhere to at least support a bit (perhaps on an opt-in system). This'd allow me to support lemmy just a little bit every time I use it.
Perhaps something to bring up on the forums to see if anybody has input on how to do this! I personally haven't had such a bad case locally yet. But you're having a great impact updating it as most likely people pass up on using OSM based services because of it, and by having it up to date it may encourage those people to switch in the future.
Yep, I only came here cause I got banned on reddit. Found it too confusing to want to give it a try before that.