Ah yes, dansup, aka the Fediverse superstar who cranks out such hits as “VAGUE FEATURE is Coming Soon”, and “The rarely updated official app for Pixelfed/Loops is going to get updated soon!”. Both of those are from the album" I insist on gatekeeping outside developers from contributing".
I’ve interacted with him as a fellow developer of the same stack he uses, and I have always appreciated where his heart is at regarding the fedi. But, the track record of quality work suffers from chasing shiny objects, and absolute spaghetti code.
Also, I’m going to be blunt in saying this; he apes existing ideas (insta, TikTok), gives them a quasi corpo social platform facade with the goal to be welcoming to the refugees who jump the fences.
This SSO thing is the antithesis of decentralization and the spirit of digital sovereignty. Literally handing Google more user data for the sake of fedi adoption via SSO is mind boggling. How many people here left big tech because of the blatant surveillance state that’s been built?
I keep trying to support his work, but I’m killing my Pixelfed and Loops accounts.
Also, I’m going to be blunt in saying this; he apes existing ideas (insta, TikTok), gives them a quasi corpo social platform facade with the goal to be welcoming to the refugees who jump the fences.
But this is what people want. Not alternatives that are different because they’re better. Not alternatives that are better because they’re different, because they intentionally don’t ape a corporate silo. No, what they want is all-out, 1:1 clones of corporate silos in the Fediverse so they don’t have to get used to something new.
One reason why Bluesky is so successful is because it’s a clone of 2012 Twitter, both the Web interface and the official app.
I’ve read people reject Friendica as a Facebook alternative because it’s look and feel is so different from Facebook’s. Because they expected a full-on Facebook clone, and Friendica isn’t one.
I dare say that a lot fewer people would have escaped from Reddit to Lemmy if Lemmy wasn’t so bloody close to Reddit in UI and UX.
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Ah yes, dansup, aka the Fediverse superstar who cranks out such hits as “VAGUE FEATURE is Coming Soon”, and “The rarely updated official app for Pixelfed/Loops is going to get updated soon!”. Both of those are from the album" I insist on gatekeeping outside developers from contributing".
I’ve interacted with him as a fellow developer of the same stack he uses, and I have always appreciated where his heart is at regarding the fedi. But, the track record of quality work suffers from chasing shiny objects, and absolute spaghetti code.
Also, I’m going to be blunt in saying this; he apes existing ideas (insta, TikTok), gives them a quasi corpo social platform facade with the goal to be welcoming to the refugees who jump the fences.
This SSO thing is the antithesis of decentralization and the spirit of digital sovereignty. Literally handing Google more user data for the sake of fedi adoption via SSO is mind boggling. How many people here left big tech because of the blatant surveillance state that’s been built?
I keep trying to support his work, but I’m killing my Pixelfed and Loops accounts.
/rant
But this is what people want. Not alternatives that are different because they’re better. Not alternatives that are better because they’re different, because they intentionally don’t ape a corporate silo. No, what they want is all-out, 1:1 clones of corporate silos in the Fediverse so they don’t have to get used to something new.
One reason why Bluesky is so successful is because it’s a clone of 2012 Twitter, both the Web interface and the official app.
I’ve read people reject Friendica as a Facebook alternative because it’s look and feel is so different from Facebook’s. Because they expected a full-on Facebook clone, and Friendica isn’t one.
I dare say that a lot fewer people would have escaped from Reddit to Lemmy if Lemmy wasn’t so bloody close to Reddit in UI and UX.