What attitude? Explaining that people do not do this as a main job and one cannot expect updates every week? This is how it works on average with non-commercial FOSS projects, we were lucky the dev had time invested when Lemmy got bigger a few months ago and now the app is running mostly fine. So thats when updates get less frequent, unless the dev is able to make the time. How is that a scaring attitude, its reality.
My criticism is based on your first rhetorical question: “[…] is this your first open source software?”.
That is the attitude I am describing. This rhetoric only works if answering yes to the question is somehow bad. It implicitly excludes newbies and enforces a kind of elitism.
What if it is their first time actively using open source software? Do you realize that this attitude scares people away from foss software?
And it’s not only op. It’s also all the newbies that stumble on this post.
What attitude? Explaining that people do not do this as a main job and one cannot expect updates every week? This is how it works on average with non-commercial FOSS projects, we were lucky the dev had time invested when Lemmy got bigger a few months ago and now the app is running mostly fine. So thats when updates get less frequent, unless the dev is able to make the time. How is that a scaring attitude, its reality.
My criticism is based on your first rhetorical question: “[…] is this your first open source software?”.
That is the attitude I am describing. This rhetoric only works if answering yes to the question is somehow bad. It implicitly excludes newbies and enforces a kind of elitism.
The rest of your comment is totally fine.
Alright, I give you that. I will remove that part.