real reasons why people DON’T use opensource:
- bugs in apps with no community on irc/discord/matrix/xmpp to ask about (yes, i talk about you @libreoffice )
- assholes in communities if such exist (yes i talk about archlinux and @godot )
- enshittification and slowly going back to not being opensource (yes i talk about @mozilla )
- and if all of the above combined it just creates resistance against opensource

small opensource can do nothing until big opensource does the step…

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 days ago

    Meh, I don’t think I agree. Sure, these things are problems and sure they are a problem in OS spaces (the last one obs only with OS) but

    • projects have the right to choose what communication systems they use (most of them are unpaid volunteers doing this in their free time I’m pretty certain), yes, some are more cumbersome than others for different sets of people, it sure would be cool if they’d use the one I/you like. But that goes for literally any project / product?
    • toxic people exist in all communities, if moreso in OS than (random example) Star Wars fandom, is very debatable. How toxic are the Microsoft forums? I honestly have no idea.
    • Mozilla doing what Mozilla does, yeah, it’s a meme at this point. Whatever.

    small opensource can do nothing until big opensource does the step…

    Why? Small open source projects totally can use “modern”™ communication channels, have nice communities and don’t enshitify. Why would they not because big project (in your opinion) aren’t doing it? I overall have super good experiences with almost all OS forums I’ve ever been to, Manjaro, Inscape, Krita, Godot, KDE, Bazzite, Fedora and so many others.