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barsoap@lemm.ee â¨7⊠â¨months⊠agoAlso, are you saying you dont believe social media was manipulated to interfere with American politics?
I sense a veritable iceberg of a conspiracy theory, there: You think Reddit and lemmy are âanti-americanâ so as to influence American politics?
Pretty much anyone outside of the US doesnât need an ulterior motive, be given money or whatever to talk shit about the US: Youâre providing ample of reason and opportunity to do that as is, thereâs no need to get the Russians or whoever involved. Also theyâre only stoking flames (on both sides and a couple more), without a base level of idiocy they would have nothing to work with.
âAggressively fanboyingâ Windows or Mac doesnât make you friends, but fanboying Linux does? You and I are definitely in different areas of CS then ha!
âŚyouâre in CS but not a developer or devops? You work at a soul-sucking job writing software for machinery or such that for have to run windows? Like, dunno, ATMs? And you and your colleagues developed Stockholm Syndrome?
mob@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
I donât have to run windows, or anything. I can run what I want.
But the people who shoehorn Linux into every conversation are also the ones who spend more time finding acceptance online rather than actually being âfriendsâ with people IRL. Tbh, I have you coined for a stereotype I know and I apologize about that. I canât help it. I just know mfers who talk like you are commenting so my bad if I attach opinions to you, I really donât mean to. Thatâs why Iâm trying to ask questions.
But you do not believe social media is manipulated then, and is just a conspiracy theory? I never accused any party of being behind the manipulations and I havenât provided any theoretical motivations. Just wondered if you believed social media is an accurate portrayal of the populations opinions.
Also, mfers try to act superior cause they got Linux, thatâs why they âget a negative reactionâ. Look how you are reacting to someone just mentioning the idea of mentioning windows ha!
barsoap@lemm.ee â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
âŚof the population of the people using it, mostly, yes. Of course, weâll never know what the lurkers think. None of it should be used for statistical analysis but youâll get a reasonable spread of opinions deemed acceptable in a particular place â for example, on lemmy youâll be hard-pressed to find Nazis or Trumpets as no admin wants to deal with that kind of headache. Tankies, too, can be readily seen to run a manipulative agenda and theyâre not entirely welcome. Frankly speaking influencing stuff just by posting is rather hard, to have to influence content discovery algorithms (which are dumb as bread in lemmyâs case and thatâs good).
Dude Iâve been running Linux as my primary desktop since the early 2000s, Iâm too old for that shit. Back in the days I was a freshly-baked programmer tinkering around everywhere, by now I largely simply want a system that a) works out of the box in a sensible manner and that b) I can mess with if required. I also have a windows installation for a game or the other and the occasional testing of builds and believe me it certainly doesnât fulfil a) and b), well, I donât know it well enough and the documentation sucks.
The usual context I see Linux mentioned in on lemmy is gaming, or in context of just what at shitshow Windows 11 is regarding ads and whatnot. Thatâs not shoehorning.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Can you give an example of people shoehorning Linux into conversations? Usually the only comment I see is already on Linux, and itâs the Arch btwâs, which is a meme in itself. Maybe you need to search for subs you like, and subscribe to them, and have subscribed as the default view. All may not be your cup of tea, like all was never my cup of tea on reddit. Youâre not always going to be in the majority view, and that is fine.