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I mod the !iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.world community, I've managed to grow the number of subscribers from 360 to 800.

I'm thinking of moving it to programming.dev. Is this a good idea? I made a post asking this and I'm looking for feedback there.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe it's me. I just have noticed this very particular type of self-important cluelessness that tends to concentrate itself in some specific communities. I've definitely had people who are 100% wrong who will get in extended arguments with me about how this wrong thing that they think is obviously right, and spend a bunch of time "debunking" some wild strawman that I never said. Like "How can you say Linux printing is bad, you must be one of those Window fanboys, Windows sucks, don't you understand open source is better you twatface how dare you." Something like that.

In fairness, now that I think about it I think that is just a lot of Linux / programming related communities on Lemmy in general. Maybe it's not fair to blame it on programming.dev just because they concentrate on that type of content and so will necessarily tend to attract that type of user.