That doesn’t apply to Linux communities on Lemmy though, but I meet a lot of Linux communities, that are toxic and beginner-unfriendly. People, who have voluntarily decided to maintain a community, behave like I broke into their house at 3 AM with my questions. If I ask a question, there will be a 20% chance to get any relevant response, but a 100% chance of being nagged with some bullshit. It especially applies to the behaviour of mods. For instance, a dude was messing with me because I have searched for a binary on the official internet database, instead of quering it via package manager.
I wish I could just avoid junkyards like that, but I can’t: I haven’t found another active community for Void Linux.
As far as I can tell from my experience, it is something specific to Linux or IT communities.
So why is it like this?
Why are some groups of humans toxic?
Linux people are just humans too. same ratio of assholes to catgirls as the general population. (mostly) if you have an ass in a group, the catgirls tend to leave and other asses aggregate. Toxic group is born. Just happens, and as long as you don’t depend on that group, just avoid them. if you do depend on the toxic group, ignore as much as possible, and start looking for a way out.