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   🩶 (graycot@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 03:16:17 JST 🩶

   Have you ever noticed that FLOSS software with a GUI tend to have a God awful and unintuitive user interface? UI/UX is pretty important for a project to have the most success and adoption by tech illiterate folks, and that's the goal? Right? Isn't the goal of FLOSS/FOSS to democratize technology and open the project to the world? Why is there such a stigma in making FLOSS inspired technology available to those without technical knowledge?

   It's a hypocritical form of discrimination. It's weird.

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 03:16:15 JST fu

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     @Graycot I don't think it is done on purpose to make things more difficult. More often than not it is "well I need it to do this particularl thing, and that particularl thing now works, I don't have time to make it look pretty for other people who may or may not ever actually need to make it do the thing" or "but I really want it to work this way, its what I want, pretty things make it much more difficult for me, which is why I made ugly thing, if you want pretty thing, you make pretty thing"
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     :sparklestar: ???? :sparklestar: (arconite@letsalllovela.in)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2022 03:16:23 JST :sparklestar: ???? :sparklestar:

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     @Graycot NO THE GOAL IS FREEDOM AND FUCK YOU IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT
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