Back when I started getting an interest in tech back in middle school I looked up to Bill Gates

In high school I used to think highly of Elon because of all the promises he was making with Tesla, space X, etc

I think it’s safe to say those opinions aged like milk

The women I’ve met in STEM both during my college days and in my career have always been far more welcoming and willing to share their expertise than the lions share of men.

Never going to forget the TA I went to back when I was a freshman who not only juggled 5 different people asking questions but helped take a concept I was struggling with and made it clear as day.

Definitely a positive there. It might not always give you the right answer or lead you down the wrong path from time to time, but I’ve always found it to at least give me a good enough direction to go in rather than spending the next hour trying to find the right set of key words on google to find my answer

I think there’s a few different things worth addressing here, so please bear with me since this might be a long reply.

What you experienced here is, unfortunately, very common for anyone getting into tech. A lot of us can recall the first time reaching out somewhere for help and receiving a mixture of belittlement and vague answers as a response. I’d argue it’s probably one of the biggest issues we have in this space.

If I had to guess why tech forums are so vitriolic to newcomers, I’d say a lot of us simply forgot what it was like to be inexperienced. They forgot how daunting it is to want to learn, to run headfirst into a bunch of errors you barely understand, and then try navigating a sea of concepts and terminology that practically requires a dictionary of its own.

While the forums rarely get better (unfortunately), never let those people drive you away. It’s incredibly overwhelming at first, and there’s a lot of us who are long overdue for a slice of humble pie, but someday things will start to click and the things you want to do will start to come to life.

It’s late, I’m rambling, but you’ll your footing. When you do I hope you get the satisfaction of telling one of those assholes on the forums to shove it while giving another newcomer the welcome they need

Gotcha, thought it might be the license and the fact gitlab is proprietary. Thanks for elaborating further on that.

Heard a lot about codeberg and forgejo on Lemmy but not a lot outside of here. Liking what I see so far

I remember when Microsoft first bought GitHub there was a pretty huge push to get off of it and onto gitlab.

Is there a reason gitlab isn’t recommended anymore?

Back in my Reddit days I made a meme for the D&D memes subreddit about how my players decapitated an enemy with a bag of holding

That somehow ended up on the front page of Reddit and I very quickly learned about a TTRPG series called dungeons and daddies that did the same thing

I jumped during the API fiasco, but in my case the story is a bit different I think.

One subreddit I used to spend a lot of time on was r/dndmemes. I was a relatively new DM at the time and loved hearing everyone’s stories and takes on things there. I even made a number of memes on the shenanigans that happened in my own campaign. Some of them took off way more than I could have ever imagined.

When the API fiasco started, that subreddit was one of the ones that participated in the blackout. When Reddit started sending threats to the mods to open it up, they asked what the community wanted. That’s when it went into what they called ‘goblin mode’. Basically everything had to be an NSFW meme since Reddit couldn’t advertise as much on those subreddits.

Reddit ended up removing just about all the mods and left the subreddit in a broken state. Practically nobody could post there. When they spun up attempt.network, I made the jump and haven’t looked back since

Now you’ve got me wondering when tldr became a thing on the internet

I might get down voted too but I think i follow what you're talking about

I had to look up a source again but I remember reading that they were having major equipment issues like rockets getting fueled with water and stuff like that.

If that is the case, then something like this doesn't sound that surprising

Found my source

Just looked into this a bit. While I don't know exactly what each one corresponds to, I did find that pastebin has some lists of urls you can use.

This one has English and German-> the comments should differentiate what's what. Hope this helps!

https://pastebin.com/smWJhNet

Well at least your username is fitting...

Im gonna be blunt, this dude wanted to learn how to use something that interests them. Getting slapped with 'just figure it out' and some unsavory comments about where you think they're from is a surefire way to kill someone's interest in ever interacting with a community.

Do better for fucks sake