I've donated to Lemmy, Beehaw, and Mastodon and came here because Reddit killed Sync. Lemmy is full of gatekeepers and it's bringing the platform down. Half the posts are whining about reddit and the other half are whining because someone doesn't adhere to the perfect open source ethos and shun anything not completely free. It's getting tiring. No wonder Lemmy's active user count is decreasing.

[–] Coehl@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking the sync app will entice enough people with.. differing views that the in-place gatekeeping will lose its bite.

I appreciate the FOSS ecosystem, but the people around here seem to think that you should never be able to sustain a living from writing software. Like I should just go back to construction and only write code on the side.

That attitude can kiss my ass.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Don't forget all the frothing at the mouth to talk up how wonderful communism is.