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“regular people” whoever that is… will never use the crunchy homemade internet if they have the option of slick apps instead. You can’t hire designers, you don’t have an advertising budget, your project with its dreamy cooperative ethos is an anathema to tech media who don’t see the point in mentioning it exists.
“regular people” like pop-ups, and bots, and having their data sold to the highest bidder, they like porn spam, and scammers and discourse so broken it causes mental harm. Right?
@futurebird They don't like any of that stuff but they'll put up with it if it means they don't have to go on a voyage of discovery and complete a self-taught computer science course to get a simple thing done.
A perennial problem in open source etc is that computer people enjoy the voyage of discovery, and many kind of think that attitude is the entrance fee for being fit to use a computer. But not everyone is like them.
@mattmcirvin Totally. The notion that suffering is required needs to go. We should make it as easy and as welcoming as we can with our limited resources.
@futurebird @mattmcirvin Too often (almost always) the "make it easy" ends up being "surrender control to someone untrustworthy". That's why those of us who understand reject it. This is the problem we need to solve. Not "make it easy" but "make it easy without broken power dynamics".