I’m here because it’s eventually going to be the better alternative.
FOSS by its nature, will keep on improving. And proprietary bloatware, by its nature, will only gonna get worse.
I’m here because it’s eventually going to be the better alternative.
FOSS by its nature, will keep on improving. And proprietary bloatware, by its nature, will only gonna get worse.
Depends. While software like Inkscape and Blender are top notch competitors, stuff like Scribus and Gimp are not.
Hell, I would even pay for software if these devs would support Linux already. If the Affinity Suite came to Linux, I would never touch Adobe again.
This sort of thing is quite different technically.
With Inkscape, blender and gimp - the main draw is an extremely complicated UI that produces image files. A social network is just sending text around back and forth.
The beauty here is the activitypub spec. The way it works is like:
ActivityPub Protocol <- Lemmy Backend <- Lemmy Client
Building a replacement backend or client is comparatively trivial. Making a good one would be hard, of course, but a single developer could whip up something that’s technically a lemmy client, or technically a activitypub backend over a weekend.
That decoupled layering, the idea that each bit just does one comparatively simple thing, is intentional.
If lemmy/kbin catch on (which it looks like they are), it will be not long at all before there are a a plethora of tools and clients cross platform.