Post #2827262

2026-02-26 13:55 UTC

@mdhughes@appdot.net @titania@retro.pizza “at the easiest you can [do something I’ve never heard of]; even [things that I have no foundational knowledge of] isn’t that hard” is the exact issue here, even if the risk of harm is lower. I know there’s guides but I’m starting at 0, and frankly I don’t want my scarce time and energy to go towards learning it. Especially when I see a post full of terminology I’ve never encountered coupled with “it’s so easy.” It’s not, to me and many others!

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@quietewe@urbanists.social 2026-02-26 14:00

@mdhughes@appdot.net @titania@retro.pizza I’m glad there are so many folks who enjoy this and want to share that with others. I have a friend who self-hosts a lot of his stuff and lets us all piggyback on his efforts, and I’m so grateful because it’s like a foreign language to me. It just doesn’t click. And I help him with the things I’m good at and enjoy doing that just don’t click for him. “Just do this thing that’s hard for you, it’s so easy” helps no one.

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@mdhughes@appdot.net 2026-02-26 14:00

@quietewe@urbanists.social @titania@retro.pizza This is precisely my point, though. You know nothing, that's fine, we all start at 0! Every single day I have to learn new things. But you have been terrified into not learning, into being completely incapable, by horrible analogies like "you will die if you make your own drugs", or "it'll consume the rest of your life". You won't die. It's not that hard; you won't have an *easy* time of it, but I assure you if you can read & write coherently, you're smart enough.

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