Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 hours ago
I haven’t seen that type of response, at least not at any significant frequency, but let me speculate wildly while accepting your premise for the moment.
People in general are less mentally resilient than they were 6-10 years ago, what with The Everything And All That In The Everywhere At All Times. That might manifest in less patience and less willingness to indulge beginners. So I don’t think it’s a conscious thing meant to gatekeep anything, people just don’t have the capacities to explain things again and again in detail (especially when they think the answer is easily found using the search engine of your choice) and are more easily exasperated if things don’t go smoothly.
Again, this is all assuming your premise.
domx@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah, I think you’re right, it’s often not intentional gatekeeping. Totally understandable, especially when people have seen the same beginner questions a hundred times before.
But that raises another question: if beginners can’t easily ask for help, where can they turn to safely learn the basics?
Does everyone really have to go through the same painful trial-and-error process alone? Of course, there’s a certain beauty in figuring things out the hard way, that’s how many of us learned, but it could be easier. Maybe there’s room for a solution, a tool or an approach that helps beginners understand what’s happening under the hood, while also taking some of the burden off advanced users who just want things to work smoothly or recover quickly when something goes wrong.