There’s a lot of good reasons to be exasperated, and you have a limited pool of emotional energy.

I have an account on a Solarpunk server. Most images are found on servers that don’t support off-site linking, or aren’t under the control of trusted people in the Fediverse. If I upload an image to post on any community, that post is native to my server because that’s where my account is. So although the post is shared with all the servers that federate with the LM community, the image is hosted on my server. This is the way the Fediverse normally works. I’ve never before seen people become exasperated about federated accounts posting to a federated community on federated social media.

It is confusing to me why so many people are angry about a ‘missing article’ when it isn’t much work to search for an article to discuss and post it in the comments. Several people have posted article links as comments, which have so far resulted in zero article discussion. I think whatever people are angry or exasperated about, it doesn’t have anything to do with me; I’m just a convenient target: I shared a picture, and the picture title sounded like it belonged to an article.

I post a lot of articles, pictures, and memes, and I do it because if I don’t, they don’t get posted. Despite doing this without getting paid, I occasionally get feedback that assumes a much higher standard of professionalism than ‘free.’ When you attack people for participating in ways that don’t meet your unrealistic standards, you not only make the people you attack lives less pleasant, but you also discourage other people from participating. In a participatory platform, your behavior is a form of cancer.

Just because I post articles doesn’t make me different from you - we are both creator-consumers here. I would like very much to have a more diverse group of people sharing stories, memes, and pictures. I notice you’ve been here a year, and haven’t made any posts yet. Consider giving it a try. You do open yourself up to more negative feedback, but you’ll understand better what realistic expectations for people who post here actually look like. It will be easier for you to understand the motivations and actions of others here.

And sometimes people want to derail any relevant conversation to complain about nothing. Post the article if you’re so upset about it.

You’re probably my most upvoted account. Fuck the naysayers, you do you.

I can barely be motivated to breathe, man. Sometimes when people show their ass I comment. If it keeps happening I move on. It’s fiiiiine.