I remember when I first tried to use Mastodon and struggled with how best to make it work, so I asked what was probably a basic question to the Enlightened™. Instead of being helped, I was met with "it's easy, maybe you're just dense?".

Then I thought that maybe Mastodon doesn't have the kind of people I'd want to interact with on it.

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unironically, this makes me pine for the old days where usenet discussions were lively.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mm, reminds me of the old world of IRC. I still remember fondly when I asked for help installing FreeBSD, and got banned with a message of "try linux".

So I did, never looked back. (Until I got a Mac at least, which counts as a BSD.)

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's kind of hilarious :D

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I've never see anyone respond with hostility to any 'how to' question on mastodon. What you've described sounds totally unlike anything I've seen there. So if you have a link to your discussion, I'd be interested in seeing how that happened.