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The Fediverse needs UI work. The new world needs a new internet.
I'm thankful we have this glorified hobbyist project of a micro internet, because it's awesome. It's time for real layout work to make things more intuitive, instead of this "just solder it" open-source-in-the-bad-way energy that sometimes gets half-assedly splattered around.
For everybody who has and is working on the Fediverse, thank you.
I wonder if you'll mention Gemini, just for fun
This will never happen without funding. Open Source severaly lacks funding big corporations have.
"The UI is bad" is the stock attack on any open-source project. Doesn't matter how good the UI actually is, or how bad the corporate version is, "bad UI" is such a nebulous criticism that you can apply it to anything.
What is a "Good UI/UX" ?
The reason I dislike this comment is it characterizes the work of many different people as "don't care." I would bet money that there are people who work on fediverse projects who care very deeply about UX but have to settle because they have day jobs.
Lemmy is lucky to have alternative frontend like Photon, Tesseract and Alexandrite
Waiting on your obviously so skilled patches to make it happen.
"You want this thing to be better? Well why don't you single-handedly do all the work yourself then? Obviously only those with the skill to do something can hope for that thing to happen!" /s
God I hate this attitude. It's so obviously wrong and yet people fall for this trap again and again. Stop doing this please, think about it and you'll realize it's stupid.
After you