before asking others how to think

Well, I’m back to telling you to go fuck yourself. Shame.

If you want to take a look at yourself and profit from this exchange, here’s how.

Consider that there are two types of people in this world.

Some people get excited when someone asks about a topic they know: they’re happy to show off their knowledge and help someone who’s interested in what they know.

And then there are people who look down on others for asking, and think that everyone should soldier out of ignorance all on their own by googling and going to the library. No asking others! These people self appoint as gatekeepers of the entire community’s time.

You were #2 here. Why? Stop talking about what frustrates you in other people and ask why you couldn’t be the first kind of person.

You remind me of a guy I once knew. I asked if I could borrow his cable crimper over the weekend and he thought about it, sighed, and said no -because the only reason he owned one is that no one was around to loan him theirs. So he was going to do me a favor and make me buy my own.

It was such an unnecessary, grim, douche bag little speech he gave me. He was a bitter fuck and he decided to pay his bitterness forward. I now own a cable crimper which I haven’t touched in 20 years.

Don’t be that guy.

Surely no one has ever shown up at a book club having missed a detail.

You obviously started this to try to feel superior to someone. How do you feel now that you’ve been downvoted? Let me guess - still confident in your superiority.

That’s your wank dude, and I’m done participating in it. Fuck off now bye.

My bad I use 3rd party app clients for both Reddit and Lemmy and they look much alike.

It makes no difference though, because Lemmy is a place for talking to people too.

When you already know the answer it’s very easy to “ackshually” someone and tell them just how they could have googled it in a second.

But when you don’t know what you don’t know, it’s not so simple. For example: when my question is “how do we know Jellyfin will not eventually go down the path of enshittification as well?” It doesn’t occur to me to just start reading their homepage and see if I stumble into an answer. Excuuuuuuuse me.

Anyway…

I’m never going to apologize for asking questions on Reddit or Lemmy. This is a place for talking to people. In the time it took you to chastise me you could have stuck your thumb up your ass 17 times.

Meanwhile, I got a perfectly good answer from someone else. Thanks for nothing.

Hey I’m just learning about Jellyfin and have one question that maybe you have a take on.

How do we know that Jellyfin isn’t just one step behind Plex on the enshittification scale? Is it structurally different somehow? Open source or something?

There was a time when Plex was the bees knees and everyone loved it, and now they’re putting th screws to us. Why should we believe another group won’t do the same?