Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you learned how to program to fix the problem rather than making inane and irrelevant comments?

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  • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It doesn’t seem worth my time to learn Rust just to submit a PR to devs who behave like that

    Ya, this is exactly the attitude that burns out devs and kills projects. Congrats for being super entitled towards a free project.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is not entitled to expect a published project to comply with basic privacy legislation and not be illegal to use.

      If your bar for this project is that much below basic consumer expectations, then this project was always going to fail.

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      • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is not entitled to expect a published project to comply with basic privacy legislation and not be illegal to use.

        No it’s not. But what is entitlement is bombarding voluntary devs with garbage requests. Is this particular issue entitlement? No. But having seen the various requests made over the last year or so there’s a breaking point where a person gets overly sensitive.

        Think of being pestered ALL day at work over garbage and having an all around bad day. Then on the way home you jump into a store to pick something up and someone says something annoying but ultimately innocuous to you. Some people can handle it in stride, some people’s nerves get frayed.

        I’m not excusing the devs here. I don’t actually know what their thoughts are. But from personal experience in the dev world and from what I’ve seen, it looks to me like they’re getting frustrated by users.

        And they might be in a region where the privacy concerns don’t apply to them. And I agree that it’s a problem, but ultimately it’s their right and prerogative to not implement.

        Remember, absolutely no one here has paid a single CENT to the devs for their work (not talking about donations).

        So complaining about the quality of their work while you are benefiting from it for free is *literally" entitlement.

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is it entitlement if it’s making using the entire thing illegal everywhere? Since there is no tooling to block traffic from the EU / not federate with instances that don’t comply with GDPR?

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      • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is it entitlement if it’s making using the entire thing illegal everywhere?

        No. It’s the dev’s project. They can do whatever they want with it. They can delete the repo and go live in the woods if they want.

        To be clear, I don’t agree with the stance they have taken. But I also see the kind of reactions there are far from what people are making it out to be. I think the people complaining about the devs being “mean” are just hypersensitive and have never been told “no” their whole lives.

        Like I said, I disagree with the devs’ position to not implement this feature. It’s been highly requested, and for good reason. But this is a free project. If they say no, then it’s no. If we don’t like that decision, then maybe we need to move somewhere else.

        It sucks but sometimes that’s life.

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