Somewhat true if you have anyone left who wants to talk to you by email.
First people stopped using it for socializing, and now it’s slowly on the way out for work communication too IME. Not secure enough. Better to use a secure messenger which requires login. And personally I quite like this, assuming the messenger is on the web and requires no software install.
The reality is that the main surviving use case for email is as a notification engine.
From an Atlantic article yesterday:
Bruno Maçães, a writer and consultant on geopolitics who has served as Portugal’s Europe minister, told me his phone had been ringing constantly since Trump’s election. European business leaders want to know what Trump will do with his second term, and how they can prepare. Maçães was not optimistic. He scoffed at Trump’s decision to create new, lofty-sounding administration posts for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and was baffled by the Silicon Valley types who believe the billionaires will transform the federal government, usher in a new era of unprecedented economic growth, and colonize Mars. “Maybe,” Maçães said. “I don’t know. But if you saw this in another country, you would see it as an acute sign of political decay when billionaires and oligarchy are taking over political policy.”
Your point is a bit off-topic but I for one agree with you.
If you really mean “literal Nazis”, that tends to support the hypothesis that you’re not being exposed to much that contradicts your worldview.
And so what? Why are you so bothered by it? I’m a Linux user of 20 years and I couldn’t give a fig that someone is running a forum called LinuxSucks which, unsurprisingly, contains little “positivity or praise” for Linux.
So: you posted a serious contribution in an unserious community, and got treated unseriously. It’s not very newsworthy.
As for that community’s existence, why is that even up for discussion? As a Linux user I’m happy for people to say what they like about Linux. If the jokes are funny, all the better.
I use Ubuntu btw and it doesn’t suck. Well, not that much.
Who do you talk to on it?
Then you’re doing exactly what you are supposed to do. Disengagement, hopelessness, resignation, it’s all in the authoritarian playbook.
Addendum: To be clear, IMO what you Americans need to do is stay engaged. That doesn’t mean protesting everything (personally I think that might even be counter-productive). It does mean voting at every tiniest opportunity, you have lots of them. And if possible getting involved in some form of local politics, even if that is just joining some club or association. It’s like a tyrannical boss and his employees, what authoritarians hate most of all is for their subjects to be talking to each other.