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Growing the community despite the recent linusgate (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by send_cortical_nodes@startrek.website to c/linus_tech_tips
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Despite the current mess that is LMG, what I have come to enjoy is the community that was brought together around technology and memes. It was nice to have a community where we talk around a common interest (tech) but also meme around. And particularly one that's not on Reddit or ltt forums.

I'm far from an LMG defender, especially after the continuous streaks of misses. Unfortunately the largest of the LTT communities - !linustechtips@lemmy.ml - (specifically its mod) had recently seemed to have chosen to go down an atrocious path of vendetta against Linus and LMG. Beyond the community now being called "Lienus Tech Tips", even a neutral thread around stubby screwdrivers were locked, preventing further discussions on the best possible stubby screwdriver.

E.g. this thread https://lemmy.ml/comment/2889903

That entire community has transformed into one dedicated to LMG hate fest. This is getting tiring and off-putting. Hoping that we can get back to growing a community built around shared interests and tech instead of one that is cancerous, and vendetta-hungry.

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[-] jgrim 2 points 1 year ago

How do you see the community growing? Look past the issues or continue to join together under a new common theme/title?

I understand wanting to avoid the conflict. I’m at the point of avoiding and trying to move on. I cancelled my FloatPlane subscription. I’d not watched any videos. I agree that it’d be great to continue the community.

I think there will be lots of people blindly downvoting. If you provide a way forward that might slow that behavior down. What would you suggest people start doing instead of focusing on what they should stop?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago

We can still talk about tech stuff. This is a community of like-minded tech enthusiast.

I have a lot more faith in this community than the other one that's gone a little off the rails vendetta

[-] send_cortical_nodes@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not necessarily looking past the behaviour - LTT-related news and updates should still be posted, and issues/scandals should still be discussed and condemned, but not to the point where we turn the community into one whose purpose is to witch hunt.

In my personal view, scandals should be reported on, express disapproval, and move on. The community should be around what we all love: discussion about technology. And to ensure that the community remains focused as to not compete with the wider technology community, it can be about technology featured on LMG channels. Many do have questions and concerns about the featured technology.

If people want to witch hunt, they can go to the lienus tech tips channel.

Again this is just a suggestion, so not at all mandating anything. Personally I'm not particularly interested in witch hunting people. I am passionate about tech, not drama.

this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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