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Why Is It Harder To Move People To Open Source - Decentralized Options? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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We have a lot of options for all social media and other apps, but it is hard to catch people's attention. How can we make more people use these platforms rather than a platform that p.dophiles run

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[–] 15 points 7 months ago

For convenience, it also doesn't help that OSS is extremely hit and miss and inconsistent between developers.

This includes:

  • App names
  • UI/UX
  • Features
  • Quality of life
  • Being a fucking dick to newcomers

At the end of the day, regular people want something that just works™. They don't want to have to dig through ancient tomes old form posts to figure out that a depreciated version of an app has been supersceeded by a slightly differently named version by a completely different dev that requires some weird dependencies that conflict with another app's dependencies and everything just breaks at some point... It's a pain in the ass.

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