That doesn’t apply to Linux communities on Lemmy though, but I meet a lot of Linux communities, that are toxic and beginner-unfriendly. People, who have voluntarily decided to maintain a community, behave like I broke into their house at 3 AM with my questions. If I ask a question, there will be a 20% chance to get any relevant response, but a 100% chance of being nagged with some bullshit. It especially applies to the behaviour of mods. For instance, a dude was messing with me because I have searched for a binary on the official internet database, instead of quering it via package manager.
I wish I could just avoid junkyards like that, but I can’t: I haven’t found another active community for Void Linux.
As far as I can tell from my experience, it is something specific to Linux or IT communities.
So why is it like this?
Yes, but some linux communities are like andrew tate levels of toxic. But instead of hating women, they hate people who don’t know linux.
It would be like andrew tate starting a womens support group, but then still acting like andrew tate. The women coming out of that support group would be confused and bewildered by why people voluntarily choose this.
I remember my first time learning linux existed was in 2005. I posted a message, with zero knowledge at all about linux, and asked what people like about linux. I was trying to decide if I even liked the concept of a non-windows OS.
The first person who replied, said “WE LIKE LINUX BECAUSE WE FUCK YOUR MOM BITCH!!!”
Cool.
And I didn’t try linux that day.