Comment on lemmy should tots let you post things to your own user profile
rglullis@communick.news 5 days agoDefinitely not arguing for a monoculture. You are overreacting and reading whatever you want, instead of what I’ve actually written.
I’m not saying “people should leave mbin and use only Lemmy as the end-all solution”. I’m saying “those who are already on Lemmy should not be forced to adopt yet-another tool just because some other alternative fulfills one use-case better”.
mbin might make some of what Lemmy does and it makes some of what Mastodon does, but it is not a perfect replacement to neither. There is always a cost to adopt any new piece of software (and I’m not talking about price, here). If some users are happy with it, by all means let them continue using it, and I hope it keeps improving. But to think that is reasonable to tell everyone “Lemmy doesn’t do this, use mbin instead” is like saying “Linux is not good on the Desktop, use Windows instead”.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
They’re websites. You’re arguing that people shouldn’t use different websites. On the Internet. Which is kind of how the Internet’s been going the last 15 years, and has turned out to be a total disaster.
The idea that the largest game in town should adopt the features of smaller players, rather than users exploring other options because there’s a slight inconvenience to the user just seems, I don’t know, incredibly entitled. It’s also how smaller projects stay invisible and die, leading to a monoculture.
So no, you’re not arguing that “we should have a monoculture!”, you’re just saying “people shouldn’t have to make choices!” which… leads to monoculture. And overwhelmingly supports the status quo.