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Who is this and why should we care about his opinion?
He's a pretty awesome educational YouTuber but this is a dumb take. To be fair, he's not a programmer or software guy. I believe his background is in engineering.
Even without being a programmer, associating Free Software with a MASSIVE purchase is bonkers.
I know a lot of people (even people who work in IT) who automatically assume free=shitty. It's hard to appreciate just how effective and influential FOSS has been as a business model unless you are immersed in the world of software.
Classic example of judging a book by it's cover I guess. The fact big tech is embracing open source software more and more, you'd think this assessment should no longer be the case.
It does require a massive amount of time
He's a very good YouTuber who seems to have a side-gig shitting all over the Fedi, fedizens, and generally anyone who holds a different opinion.
My view is that snark attracts snark. I love this guy's videos and how thorough he is in his research and his occasional snide humor is fine, sometimes getting the YouTube comments in a frenzy.
On Mastodon it's harder because that kind of take invites a bunch of replies back, which regardless of how right or wrong you are, engaging in 20 arguments consecutively gets annoying. And being snarky about FOSS stuff on Mastodon stokes massive flamewars if not put under control or not being level-headed.
Being snarky is fine. Turning around and complaining about "harassment" from people after you posted a shit take is not.
Having as many followers as he does on the fediverse right now is difficult. There aren't any tools or options to reduce the flood of notifications you get or do do any sort of sane filtering (especially on mastodon) so i totally understand why he often reacts the way he does. You cant feasibly block or de-federate when your reach is so large.
Maybe if fedizens would stop trying to convert everone to their tech stack they would be less obnoxious.
Maybe he could be less obnoxious by just leaving?
And this is the reasons why the fediverse has such a hard time reaching mainstream adoption. Because people like you can't let others live their life. Maybe people don't want to spend time to switch to linux.
The Fediverse has no intent of reaching mainstream adoption.
If the way you "live your life" is by being a toxic asshole, you're gonna have a hard time no matter where you go.
Valid question. After reading his opinions, why would anyone follow his mastodon?
If he's a good YouTuber, it's like following a footballer who has shit opinions. I'll watch you play football, but screw following your nonsense stream of consciousness.