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2026-08-01 04:46:40

akareilly@hachyderm.io

If you want people to switch to your non-evil tool:

- make it accessible

- make it usable

- make communicating with you about bugs and usability easy

2026-08-01 04:50:22

Wren Reilly

akareilly@hachyderm.io

anyone chiming in with:

“I made this for free so uppity end users can suck it!”

or

“uwu I made this just for meeeeeee!”

gets blocked.

If you make janky things for yourself then these posts are not about you. Programmers should be able to work with IF/THEN statements, wouldn’t you think?

2026-08-01 06:28:52

Adi 🐕🐾🐾🐾 (he/him)

adityabhaskar@hachyderm.io

@akareilly they are all good things to target, but... most evil corp tools don't pass these tests.

- most are inaccessible
- usability suffers with enshittification
- communicating with evil corps is harder than an in person audience with a deity

Replacing evil corp tools without evil corp resources while setting a higher qualifying bar is not an encouragement for alternative producers.

2026-08-01 11:27:32

Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

@Wren Reilly Agreed with the person above that most proprietary tools are a UX hellhole, and people only use them because they've been locked into using them for however many years or decades.

And one of my favourite parts about FOSS is that I can just open up a Matrix room and there's the lead developer right there, online 24/7 like some kind of maniac, ready to happily answer my questions or let me know if the bug I'm experiencing is going to be fixed in the next little while.