Like seriously I need y'all to understand that most social circles do not include someone who can take out a broken hard drive and put in a new one and put windows on it.

When the hard drive dies, the whole-ass computer goes in the bin, end of story.

For goodness' sake keep that in mind when you're designing your software, and the website that tells people why they should use your software

🦊 Oh, but all MY social circles include the guy who can change out a broken hard drive!

🦝 THAT'S YOU. YOU'RE THE GUY

Hey, you know how when you gotta do something that's so jank it'll only run on windows, you set up a new windows box, what's the first thing you do?

You go into the settings in the file explorer and swear at it and go "Where the hell have they hidden it this time" until you find the option that shows the whole filenames, right? So you don't end up double-clicking on cutekitten.jpg.exe, right? So you can see what the hell's going on in the computer that you bought and that lives in your house? How the hell else are you supposed to use it, right?

Most people don't do that. Hardly anyone does that. You are an outlier for doing that. You are a tiny minority. If someone downloads a zip with file.html and file.css and file.jpg then they only see file, file and file. Most people never change any settings. Most people don't even know that there ARE settings. The joke about the writer who sighs and says "Sometimes I'm sad that I make art.txt not art.jpg," nobody gets that joke, except weirdo computer people like us.

I cannot express strenuously enough how different most peoples' experience of technology is, to how people talk about it on fedi, which is full of the one person in a hundred who fiddle with the settings. But which also seems to have lots of people who are trying earnestly to make Software That Will Change The World.

If you want your software to be liberating, if you want it to be an agent of positive change, then it has to be usable and understandable by a majority of people. Being frustrated at Clueless Users won't change anything, won't help anything, won't do anybody any good. I promise you, these people are just as frustrated at you as you are at them, and you're outnumbered a hundred to one.

Meet people where they are FFS.

I'm frustrated because people want to leave facebook. Millions of people, right now, want to get off facebook, they're ready to move, they're crying out for somewhere to move to, they're ready to take their friends with them, and we've missed the damn moment again. The same computer people who want everyone to get off facebook are banging on about nodes and software licenses and decentralization as though anyone understands what any of that means, or cares.

Like, if we want to actually make a fart in the wind's worth of difference then making a space that's only usable by the other computer people isn't gonna cut it.

People are literally asking each other "Where can we go now that this place is obviously under enemy control, we have to get out of here," these moments don't come around that often, and friendica's all “The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout ‘Save us!’… and I’ll look down and whisper ‘Nodes’.”

oh maybe there is something for iOS apps.apple.com/ca/app/kimis-a-…

FYI Sharkey is a fork of Misskey so the this mobile app will be compatible

‎Kimis - A Client for Misskey

‎Kimis is a client for Fediverse backend Misskey, pronounce as reverse or Kim's! It supports many features and is well designed. - Any instance running Misskey 13 + - Supports iOS/iPadOS 14.0+, macOS 11.

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