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@youronlyone@c.im I think we often make the same mistake about GNU/Linux too, by comparing it to Windows, though it's a completely different operating system. Consequently users have some expectations that GNU/Linux is Windows-like, while it isn't. And that expectations influences look and feel of desktop environments, sometimes causing repeating bad design practices, because people are used to it and expect similar experience.

I also see some of the fediverse projects have ambition to replace existing large, centralized social media services. Mastodon's goal for example, is to be Twitter-killer. They advertise themselves as federated alternatives. I also would like all that awesome projects we create were recognized as something truly unique, not only an alternatives. That way, Mastodon should not be a competition to Twitter, Pixelfed a competition to Instagram and Friendica a competition to Facebook - these are a totally different things with different ideas and values. So we are not compared to our corporate "competition" and classified as "better" or "worse", rather as-is.

In my opinion this change require rejecting some of the classical paradigms we're used to and inventing something new. I personally use and like GNU/Linux not because it's Windows-like, but because it's different. Otherwise, why just don't use Windows instead? Let's try to imagine something, which is cool and no one done it before, and do it.