I'm surprised that nobody's tried building an entirely new social media format on ActivityPub yet.
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I'm surprised that nobody's tried building an entirely new social media format on ActivityPub yet. Everything seems to be clones of socials that already exist to my knowledge
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I'm surprised that nobody's tried building an entirely new social media format on ActivityPub yet. Everything seems to be clones of socials that already exist to my knowledge
I wrote a thread related to this almost 2 years ago:
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (@reiver@mastodon.social)
1/ I've been in the #openSource scene for a long time. From BEFORE this was even called "open-source" — back BEFORE the phrase "open-source" even got coined and became common. Here is a problem with most open-source software projects have, including most #Fediverse software —
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
The TL;DR is —
Most open-source software is created by software-engineers — and usually no one with UI, UX, or product backgrounds are involved.
Creating new products is a different skill-set — usually labeled under product, UX, and UI.
And, although some software-engineers have UX, UI, or product skills — most don't.
So, when they do open-source — they often just copy / mimick. -
I wrote a thread related to this almost 2 years ago:
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (@reiver@mastodon.social)
1/ I've been in the #openSource scene for a long time. From BEFORE this was even called "open-source" — back BEFORE the phrase "open-source" even got coined and became common. Here is a problem with most open-source software projects have, including most #Fediverse software —
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
The TL;DR is —
Most open-source software is created by software-engineers — and usually no one with UI, UX, or product backgrounds are involved.
Creating new products is a different skill-set — usually labeled under product, UX, and UI.
And, although some software-engineers have UX, UI, or product skills — most don't.
So, when they do open-source — they often just copy / mimick.
