@meso I've seen it for years but the last like five or so it's been beyond the pale. People hard refuse to use anything that doesn't exude corporateness, saying it looks "sketch" or "unprofessional" etc. The worst example of this I would say is social media and chat software. They will reduce the whole thing to the UI/UX. If you try to even broach the topic of federation it will not register at all. What they care about is if you can open up the image and then swipe left or right to go to the next one. Those kinds of things are the only issue normies will even consider when choosing software on their phone. And frankly, I'm not even sure it's really about that. I actually think it's really about not wanting to accept software written by Some Guy as legitimate. It must be overproduced bloatware by a big corporation or else it's gross and icky.

You have to know the mentality I'm talking about. I can't be the only crazy person who has noticed this

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