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Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free (www.joanwestenberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The major platforms are convenient.

But the open web offers something better: genuine ownership, community governance, and independence.

This has a kind of underlying connotation that the open web can't be convenient. This is not true.

It is true that lots of platforms on the fediverse (Lemmy included) don't have the best user experience and user journey flow. But that's not how it has to be. We don't have to accept that as a given.

It's the same problem that Linux faces, where UX issues aren't prioritised because the user base is technical enough to deal with the bullshit. We can't let the same thing occur to the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

But that's the problem though, devs are notoriously bad at UX, and people good at UX don't seem to care as much about FOSS and the open web. At least that's my experience.

So we need people to speak out so devs can fix these little paper cuts in UX

[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago

There's plenty of good, open source UX in FOSS. Have you seen the Gnome family of apps? They look great and are easy to understand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago

Agreed, this has always been a major disconnect.

I'll also say that devs are notoriously bad at "being a noob". A lot of software just takes too much investment to get working - those that do not tend to be extremely predatory (i.e Facebook).

Devs need to create dead-simple software that has UX which caters to common actions humans would do.