hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what’s happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we’ll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don’t know that we’ll need to
No, really, I want to know how lost you are here.
I’m posting from Lemmy to a Beehaw thread, that just happened to mention Mastodon… This thread isn’t directly on Mastodon. People leaving for BlueSky over Mastodon is just a reference point.
Making the choice that “usability matters” means you’re willing to shack up with Jack Dorsey and his horrible politics over a community.
You don’t even know what a fucking techbro is. Steve Huffman, the goober who ran half us off of reddit, is a techbro. Jack Dorsey is a techbro. Palmer Luckey is a techbro. Elon Musk is a techbro. Wallstreetbets traders are techbros. Someone who only got into tech for money. I’m not sure if you’ve been paying attention but the people who are producing Free Open Source Software like Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon aren’t in it to make money and are in it to create communities.
How is it insulting to say that the people who, once again are creating the place you are posting as a free service and not seeing remuneration, don’t owe it to anyone to spend their lives on usability when they are primarily a programmer and not user interface specialist? Like you yourself said, they don’t actually owe you that.
Further, how is it insulting to say that people who don’t want to learn something because it isn’t immediately easy to use are lazy or unwilling to learn? Do you have any idea how many corporate pieces of shitty software with bad UI and usability I have been forced to and learned to use in my lifetime? Way too fucking many, and these are pieces of software private companies pay a fucking mint for. Yet somehow, each time, I was willing to learn how to use them, despite disliking them or thinking they could be done better. Not once did I think that the best course of action would be just not learn it and tell my boss the UX was terrible and they needed to do better.
I really think you need to lower your expectations from admins programming a free piece of software in their spare time and paying for server costs with donations. Also, seriously, figure out what a “techbro” is, it’s not the people giving you free shit with no ads who have decided not to enshittify their services to get more money while fucking over users. It’s also definitely not the people who want you to elevate yourself and learn something for the sake of learning it, instead expecting people (who. are. not. paid.) to make it easier for you, because you can’t be arsed.
Find a map, because you’re lost.