Ok. Yelling at (non abusive) noobs is the least effective and most diversity-destroying way to maintain norms, especially when those norms are otherwise impossible to learn.
As @fraying said earlier this week, productive barriers to entry are intentional and thoughtful. Confusing UX, missing docs, and conflicting + insufficient info on how to select an instance are neither intentional nor thoughtful, and their main effect is to skew a place toward nerds. (I am a nerd.)
https://mastodon.social/@williamgunn/110794152420674963
Erin Kissane /
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2023-07-28 23:09:20
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