seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@colo_lee @GPJohnston I think people are often coming from a place of believing that others genuinely don't understand how things work, because they recently didn't understand themself
but in this case I'm like, you are correct that the tool doesn't do the thing a similarly-named tool did elsewhere
that is because you are now in a space designed by people who found that tool's behavior elsewhere fairly upsetting
(I notice the same thing about QGIS vs Esri products, in my work life)
@colo_lee @GPJohnston lol I get up every day and try to remind myself about that
and sometimes it really is that way but daaaamn also people are people an upsetting amount of the time 😆
@sarae @colo_lee @GPJohnston it is very nice to assume someone just wants to share newfound knowledge.
maybe it is worded as "advice" because this a style of conversation people are used to.
you can also word it as "something I learned" and hope that others find useful so I am sharing it.
Sara
Greg Johnston
Lee from Colorado
Corinna Balkow
jz.tusk