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To those who are new to this whole fediverse/threadiverse/this thing, how has your experience been? (piefed.social)

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And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?

What has worked for you?
What do you see needs improvement in your chosen platform?

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[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

I've also repeated been lectured that piefed is some miraculous place that is 'different' but I've been on it for several months and it seems no different other than a lot of the users on piefed instances huffing their own farts on how superior they are for being on piefed.

Haha.

I get that!

It does take years to feel the difference in a place like this.

Many of us have been engaged with computer freedom for decades. We're...um...quite happy with this place. But we should be. We put significant work into creating it, and the principles we built it on do work (slowly).

Your feedback on smug superiority is 1000% valid.

We're stuck in smug party mode here because this is the year of the Linux desktop! We've been at this for decades and Microsoft just wildly misplayed their hand. The current specific vibe might calm down, eventually.

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