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Most people never become auto-didacts. Most auto-didacts still benefit from formal training because above average gross performance can mask subtle mistakes until the mistake becomes root cause for a significant error.

Under significant pressure (like a well-written dramatic fiction, but almost never IRL), most doctors will be willing to perform a procedure without formal training, but under normal conditions, they know it is not worth the additional risk.

Some people hate it, including some independent developers. I wouldn't mind going without it, if there was a Free Software library management alternative. I want something to track what I have installed (because I've "lost" things and reinstalled them before) and something that has a decent uninstall.

I also get some benefit from the store integration, but I can understand developers being annoyed at the 30% "steam tax". I'd gladly purchase using some other method, if I didn't have to sacrifice library functions from previous paragraph.

infosec.pub is pretty tolerant...

It does seem cool and complex, but I don't think I'll ever get good at it, so playing it myself results in a lot of frustration and peaks with a rage-quit.

I wonder if it will be interesting to watch. Day9 seems to like playing it.

"users will be frustated and leave" exactly the same thing can happen to an instance that adds an instance (or wildcard domain) block. I'd be very surprised if no instance has ever rolled back a block.

Users don't need to worry about instance blocks on ActivityPub, any more than they have to worry about DNS RBLs for email.

if gmail could just randomly decide to stop receiving emails from outlook addresses and there’s nothing any user can do about it

This is the case right now.

There's good reasons GMail doesn't do that, but there's absolutely nothing technical preventing from doing that, and I can't think of anything that legally prevents them from doing that.

Using another ActivityPub-based interface is a LOT to ask for many users. They want a simple to pronounce name, they can stick in their browser's universal bar and be on a sign-up page in less than 3 clicks without making any more choices.

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There have been some complaints about Mastodon for years; both specific ("quote tweets") and vague (get rid of shitty, often bigoted replies for profiles with a lot of followers or with a marginalized identity).

Mastodon largely hasn't implemented them. Maybe Bluesky has. (I don't have a BS account.)

It's an argument against a license that permits relicensing under a more restrictive license. (E.g. BSD)

I rewatched recently, and while I love seeing the mother, that last season is quite bad.

But, GoT is worse and I refuse to watch "Season 9" of Scrubs, so HIMYM is not my priority for hate on this list.

(Also, complaints that annectdotally confirm the data don't seem to be the most useful comments.)

I read a story of someone that contributed to a BSD project, including fixes over some period of time, but later they ended up having to use a proprietary UNIX for work, that included their code, in a an intermediate, buggy state, but they were legally forbidden from applying their own bug fixes!

At the very least the GPL guarantees that if I am ever downstream of myself, I has fix my own damn mistakes and don't have to suffer them.

I am still willing to contribute to BSD stuff, but vastly prefer something like the AGPLv3.

But, for several reasons is a much worse experience for people with a large number of followers, especially if they are from a marginalized group.

Everyone should get off X, but I find it hard to recommend any replacement. Threads and Bluesky have problems, but they might work better than Mastodon for some people or organizations.