Tbh I'm a bit disappointed, the influx of new users is great. It's great people are leaving closedsource places and enjoying free and opensource places like lemmy.

Its good seeing new faces and making new friends.

And I get they'll inevitably bring some of that default "closed is better than open" mindset with them.

Its just disappointing when given the opportunity to learn a bit more about the world of open freedom, instead of considering maybe there might be something new they could learn and potentially enjoy.

Instead they try to drown us out with mindless and (mostly) unsubstantiated downvotes.

And it often turns out to be people who inevitably declare they don't know how to use linux or couldn't get it working properly.

So WHY is it when someone admits they don't really understand the topic, do they think they're the right person to vote on the legitimacy of the claims being made???