Whenever I ask for technical assistance on the Fediverse, I get multiple offers of help within a minute.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@kevin true! I can't wait for FOSDEM 🥳

[eqroeil@mastodon.social]

@RabiesGirl @_elena 11k followers

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@eQRoeil @RabiesGirl this happened this morning on my GoToSocial account (2k followers)... so lower threshold needed for superior tech advice

[eyeamshaf@vmst.io]

@_elena Yes this is a great place here!

[tunneltoast@mastodon.social]

@_elena Meanwhile I heard a story yesterday that this elderly woman can't even cancel a subscription that her partner bought for facebook before he passed away... All she gets when she calls the support is bots bots bots ... Meta is trash

[slink@fosstodon.org]

@_elena i think this also has a lot to do with who is asking and how.
"kindness is a boomerang"

thank you for being the kind person that (i think *) you are

*) not knowing you IRL

[threesigma@mastodon.online]

@_elena
Admittedly, half that advice is “you should switch to Linux” even if you’re using Linux, but still.

[jonberger@sfba.social]

@ThreeSigma @_elena I came here to say that, except I wasn't going to say "half." I've basically given up requesting technical help on social media for exactly that reason.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@slink true!

And I try to be kind and to teach my little one that kindness is the most important thing...

I have been telling her this quote by Maya Angelou many many times:

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@ThreeSigma

[grmon@chaos.social]

@_elena not the same for everyone though.