• Victor@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I’m quite interested in literally every release of Nextcloud, Firefox,Flatpak, Docker, Invidious, Redlib and Nvidia (partially) open source driver, based on my own use case.

    Then the natural thing for you to do is to subscribe to releases of those things where they are announced, and not hope someone posts them here, right? And everyone who has the same interest should do the same, or perhaps subscribe to the communities of those specific software, if they’re fine with maybe missing a release announcement.

    The fact that an open source software, I’m interested in, is getting regular updates, and not getting abandoned is quite special to me.

    Okay, cool, then that’s a post right there. That’s a post. That might be an opinion you want to share. You see?

    That’s the point I’m trying to make is that we are in a community of people here, and just dumping release logs becomes noise if there’s nothing to talk about.

    “Just scroll past it and ignore it.” The thing with that is that it’s not a passive action! It’s something I have to do actively and consciously. And doing that so many times a day becomes annoying. And it makes me want to leave communities that otherwise have lots of interesting posts and people, if you disregard the release dumps.

    Just to be clear, unless there is a specific rule enforced in this forum, your opinion and my opinion are equally valid.

    To be perfectly clear, that’s exactly what I’m looking for. That’s the type of rule a lot of us wish was in place in these communities.

    You don’t need to drag other in, just to prove your argument. Your own opinion should be good enough.

    I’m not trying to “prove” my point. I’m trying to make you have more empathy and respect your surroundings by showing you a lot of people have the same feelings I have. 🤷‍♂️ These types of posts become exhausting if I want to continue to be in these communities.

    So do with that information what you will. That’s all I’ll say on it. Remember, you didn’t do anything “wrong”, as you know. We’re just looking for a bit “more”—a reason to click, to interact, with you. If there’s no description in the post, there’s no motivation.

    Have a good one. 🤟