#behelpful — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #behelpful, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: Request for enthusiasts about any given piece of software
When new people try to use it and have questions, try to answer the question they're actually asking.
"How do I do X with Y?"
Instead of answering: "You shouldn't do X with Y! Why would you use Y if you wanted to do X?" Maybe answer like this:
"Here's how you can do X with Y."
Or if that's not the best answer, try something like one of these:
"Y makes it hard to do X, because it's prioritizing W. You can do it this way if you want to, but you might consider Z, which is similar and makes X a priority."
"Y leaves X off by default because of W, but you can turn it on by doing Z."
"Y doesn't do X at all because of W, but Z might be a workable alternative for the use case you describe." (W can be anything from a critical design goal to an arbitrary decision to just no one has gotten around to building the feature yet, and Z can be an alternative to either X or Y)
And most importantly, remember: Their use case for X (or Y, for that matter) is not necessarily the same as yours!
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How about this?
Let’s put our differences aside and work together to make life better for all beings on Earth.
It doesn’t matter what size, color, gender or ability you have - everyone can do good.
Pls. Let's all try to do more and please BOOST, to spread the message (thx)
#DoGood #BeHelpful #peace #kindness #aiart #digitalart #stopwar #animalrights #savetheplanet
