@crafti I mean... ripping off while maintaining level of quality ain't simple, there are things we don't uderstand fully, you'd think making super mario bros clone is easy until you realise that you made physics completely wrong and it doesn't quite feel the way it should. And you can say it feels even better but next person would say it feels worse, the goalposts are not well defined and we don't know what we are doing, some would want something the same but without the flaws, but others won't settle for anything except perfect copy.

I don't think anybody is pushing people away, it is just clashes of culture. Some people are terminally online, some people are terminally offline, some watch tv too much, some are just tired. You can't expect literally everyone to get along, that's just how society is.

And it goes deeper - pleroma provides options, but someone might say there's too many, someone would say software should not provide options at all, and yet another person will not even check if options are a thing.

And not to mention, a lot of software wasn't exactly developed as a replacement for something else, some things are just runaway success and creators are simply not ready for it or ill equipped.