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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:19:01 JST lainy
   Foss devs need to ask themselves the question why 90% of users of users prefer “enshittified”, user-hating, privacy disrespecting applications and services that cost money to our free, ethical and user-friendly offerings.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:20:54 JST lainy

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     • 御園はくい
     @hakui I think the might be both stupid and evil, there’s no other way to explain it
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:20:55 JST 御園はくい

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     @lain clearly they must be brainwashed, can't be because they have the features they want with a passable UI
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     Technocore Patriot (sunbeam_rider@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:26:02 JST Technocore Patriot

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     @lain Network effect. That's it.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:26:02 JST lainy

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     • Technocore Patriot
     @sunbeam_rider that’s why everyone’s still on MySpace
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     יעקב (_anti@novoa.nagoya)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:26:58 JST יעקב

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     @lain@lain.com cus slave infrastructure accomodates slave necessities more neatly than uncomfortable but potentially more liberating alternatives. Easier to not think for yourself.
     
     (tough talk for someone who doesn't know how to code lol. bear with me I'm venting somewhat but there's reason to think along these lines I think)

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:27:16 JST lainy

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     • יעקב
     @_anti I don’t think “people who don’t use my software are probably NPCs who don’t think” is a good way to develop.
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     Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:31:47 JST Nicholas Conrad

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     • Technocore Patriot

     All my homies have Tom in their top eight.

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     RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:44:36 JST RedTechEngineer

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     @lain
     
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 16:16:18 JST lainy

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @hakui @mangeurdenuage I’m just happy that those companies who supposedly exploit people instead run all of their services as permanent loss leaders, just for a future reward in heaven, while it’s all being paid for by shareholders.
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 16:16:19 JST 御園はくい

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @mangeurdenuage @lain turns out corporations are able to do loss leaders and paper over the cost of maintenance with profit from other operations, and people would rather offload the cost of maintenance to the corpos so they don't have to do it themselves
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 16:16:20 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     • 御園はくい
     @hakui @lain Clearly it can't be because the cost of maintenance exist and that corporations are just servicing at a loss.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:00:51 JST SuperDicq

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     @lain@lain.com Because the inherently unjust proprietary software is designed like a trap. They make you stuck inside their "ecosystem". And they also use the data they steal from you against you, to make their crap addictive as well.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:04:51 JST kaia

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     @lain FSF goal is not for users to adopt their software. if everyone did, they would lose their sect's unique features. FSF goal is to radicalize a small group of nerdy autistic young folks to replenish their ranks.
     
     FSF keeps others out intentionally by making increasingly irrational demands that only work from their emic view and moral system, while appearing to be irrational and uncompromising from outside.
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     Marcin Mikołajczak (mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:09:06 JST Marcin Mikołajczak

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     @lain because they’re the defaults, like, most users never installed an OS themselves

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:22:47 JST SuperDicq

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     • procles

     @nemuizabrak@mastodon.world @lain@lain.com Yes, and proprietary software will often refuse to implement free file formats on purpose, because they know not being interoperable makes them more money.

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     procles (nemuizabrak@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:22:48 JST procles

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     @SuperDicq @lain for some software proprietary barely intercompatible (if at all) file formats are a part of this

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     mothball蛾玉 (西洋巣酸の木) (moth_ball@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:27:06 JST mothball蛾玉 (西洋巣酸の木)

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     • kaia
     @kaia @lain There is no winning an argument when going into the domain (no pun intended) of autism
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:40:35 JST snacks

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     @lain if i make software in my free time it is to fulfill the features i want, everyone else comes second (i will never fi ish it regardless). If the project becomes big enough for others to join in it will turn to shit because the featureset isn't defined by divine guidance (my whims) anymore
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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:49:21 JST of nothing

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     @_anti @lain you want to see slave infrastructure, use Microsoft Teams. It's so shit that you'll probably some economics just to understand how such software could possibly be so wrong and yet be used at all by anybody.
     
     Discord meanwhile is just genuinely good, which is why people use it. Even as bad as the company is and as much as it is an annoying retread for content to not be on a website but in a little hidden bunker with a "click the trans flag to continue" virtue screen, people use it because everything is much worse.
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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:50:29 JST of nothing

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     • Technocore Patriot
     @sunbeam_rider because C-level execs are the customer and all the features are in that direction, and some features are incompatible with what users of the software would actually like.
     
     For example, if search is really good, then internal actors can quickly betray the company. If there are good local logs, a disgruntled employee can walk away with them.
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     Technocore Patriot (sunbeam_rider@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:50:30 JST Technocore Patriot

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     @apropos I'm convinced every corpo uses microshaft's shitware because of some commercial/marketing sleight of hand or because of some mind virus cooked up by Bill Gates. I really cannot think of another explanation
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:51:34 JST Blurry Moon

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     • of nothing
     @apropos @lain @_anti I don't understand how Teams is even acceptable for a big corporation in any way. Like, for things like legal compliance. It is agonizing trying to extract data from it, it's extremely manual process that involved scrolling, letting it load new messages, and scrolling again, for like an hour to load messages. It's fucking abominable. I had to do this recently.
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     Protoss (nigger@spergia.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:55:40 JST Protoss

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     • Technocore Patriot
     @lain @sunbeam_rider yes. whichever social network their parents are not on, is the one teenagers will use.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 17:55:55 JST Blurry Moon

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     @lain Because normal people are too stupid to think "this networked-only service won't work if the company goes away" because it works RIGHT NOW. Then when the company goes away or has an outage, they get mad and then go right back when it comes back or a new company fills the gap. People are stupid and shortsighted.
     
     Also companies have the money and staff to put work into UI and ergonomics. You can even have the will to do that in FOSS and not have the money or time, or you end up with assholes like GNOME
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 18:41:39 JST SuperDicq

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     • procles

     @RedTechEngineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link @nemuizabrak@mastodon.world @lain@lain.com Yeah I really don't get why people complain about webp. It works completely fine in all of the software that I want to use it with.

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     RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 18:41:40 JST RedTechEngineer

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     • procles
     @nemuizabrak @SuperDicq @lain
     
     99.9% of time someone complains about webp it's this.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 18:50:47 JST SuperDicq

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     • procles

     @nemuizabrak@mastodon.world @lain@lain.com @RedTechEngineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link ancient Windows software doesn't work with itExactly, and that's not the only reason why nobody should use it.
     for example Telegram assumes any webp file is a stickerOh yeah this is something I have noticed as well when using Telegram. But it doesn't think every webp is a sticker however, it has some arbitrary things that it checks like dimensions or filesize if it decides to turn it into a sticker instead. But yes what Telegram does with webp is dumb.

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     procles (nemuizabrak@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 18:50:49 JST procles

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     • RedTechEngineer

     @SuperDicq @lain @RedTechEngineer ancient Windows software doesn't work with it and for example Telegram assumes any webp file is a sticker

     Also old pirated Photoshop

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 19:14:13 JST 翠星石

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     @lain I'm not a "FOSS dev", but that's because 90% of users are braindead.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 19:16:39 JST 翠星石

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     @lain Also, you know that free doesn't mean gratis - what are you doing?
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     Антон Сычёв (inyanblood@suya.place)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 19:58:31 JST Антон Сычёв

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     • kaia

     @kaia @lain well Foss developers are not FSF, and the foundation itself has a very mixed reputation among free software enthusiasts.

     Many young people are prone to radicalization due to mental issues, it’s better to radicalize in software than in politics though.

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     shironeko (shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 21:56:00 JST shironeko

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     @lain if you are developing software palatable to the general public, you would be a idiot to make it foss. you can easily sell that shit and make yourself financially independent.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 19:35:55 JST 翠星石

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     • Blurry Moon
     @amerika @lain @sun windows no longer works "out of the box".
     
     It doesn't seem a support hotline is really offered anymore and if you post on the windows help forms with an issue, most of the time you get told to run `sfc /scannow`, which is totally useless.
     
     
     On decent hardware, unlike windows, everything just works on GNU/Linux-libre.
     
     There are companies that offer handholding services for GNU/Linux and it's simply a matter of paying for such service.
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     ≠ (amerika@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 19:35:56 JST ≠

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     @sun @lain
     
     Normies want stuff that works out of the box and has a support hotline.
     
     This is why Windows is still crushing Lunix.
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     ベッサーヴィッサー :verify: :verified: :verified_flashing: (besserwisser@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 18:50:19 JST ベッサーヴィッサー :verify: :verified: :verified_flashing:

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     • יעקב
     @lain @_anti It's the only way I develop (I don't).
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     ベッサーヴィッサー :verify: :verified: :verified_flashing: (besserwisser@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 18:53:20 JST ベッサーヴィッサー :verify: :verified: :verified_flashing:

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @lain @mangeurdenuage @hakui The entire idea of "enshittification" is corporations worsening a once good product to finally cash in somehow.
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