I am but a cog in a machine. A lazy one though.
I’m not on beehaw but love you too and love beehaw aswell!
It’s also about the barrier of entry. Discord has a barrier, but it is not high. The fact that this platform is their commercial product ensures that issues are minimal (well…). For non tech-savvy people and those who don’t have time / don’t want to put in time to troubleshoot and figure things out this is the reason they go for these commercial solutions.
Just my observations from trying to switch friends and family over to free open source alternatives. It was a huge hassle to even get people to try out and move to signal, but signal has lowered the barrier quite a bit and now it’s stable (was not always as fast and stable as now).
I find that if I procrastinate on learning, the best course of action is to go blindly in, try, get frustrated, find info, create chaos and just absolutely fail.
Surprisingly this breaks the procrastination cycle for me. But I can’t promise that this will work for you.
The other option is to just watch a tutorial on the phone, which may break barrier (unlike actually sitting infront of a computer deciding that you will invest time into this).
For me the absence of downvote has lowered the barrier to comment. On reddit I felt the same as you.
On another note, your account details say you are a bot?
There is @[email protected] on kbin with over 500 subscribers but sadly haven’t found anything like UkraineWarVideoReport.
Not sure if federation has been fixed on kbin.social yet though.
Edit: federation works again on kbin.social
Edit2: Your prayers have been answered, r/CombatFootage is migrating to [email protected]
Good point. I keep forgetting that not everyone just moved here during the protests.
Wait. Why are the memes about the blackout better on twitter than here?! Or have I just not found the good communities for those kind of memes?
Lmao what is the original one for this??