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I know why people do not switch to the Fediverse, or why they do not switch to secure messaging services, outside the reach of corporate and government oversight.
It is more convenient not to do so.
A lot of these free, open source developments, target geeks. Congratulation, if you're reading this, you likely have already put in more effort that it takes to sign up and use something else.
NO - Never - Get the idea out of your head, people will not give up convenience for better privacy. It is not in human nature and 30+ years of corporate and government oversight, should make that obvious. If it is not convenience, it does not matter how private and secure something is. Sorry, not sorry, those are just the facts. It is a hard pill to swallow, but swallow you must, so people can start focusing on making these many things, convenient.
I sometimes, although I cannot prove it, believe some of the developments behind better privacy and security, intentionally keep things hard, by design. That perhaps the FOSS world was infiltrated years ago, and that is why there has always been the pushback, on making things idiot-proof, graphically please, and simpler.
Mastodon and Misskey, for example, both use Activity Pub, but I should not need to copy and paste someone's username and manually search for them, to follow. It took years, for Mastodon, to make it easy for me to just stumble over a profile, and click a single button to follow.
If it is not simple, and easy, you're wasting everyone's time. Go code something else.
#Privacy #Security #InfoSec #InfomationSecurity #WhatsApp #Signal #Foss #OpenSource #Development #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey
@Linux I agree with you. I personally have tried to get away from WhatsApp but I couldn’t stay for more than 10 months.
It is difficult to communicate with people when the other person expects you to “WhatsApp” them something. A sad truth but it is a fact.
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza It is the chicken and the egg, argument. People use WhatsApp, because others use WhatsApp, and others use WhatsApp, because it is easy.
There were platforms, before WhatsApp. There will be platforms long after WhatsApp falls out of favor. But they will have 1 thing in common. Everyone will flock to that platform, because it is not hard to use and it works. Simple as that.
@Linux @shanmukhateja I sometimes get frustrated by people wanting to take the easy way out of everything but there needs to be avenues for both kinds of users. There needs to be ways for users that don't care to be technical subject matter experts and those that do.
@housepanther@goblackcat.social @shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza Corporations are smart, because they focus on easy 1st.
If you want people to adapt your product and service, it needs to start easy. You cannot come out with something that is hard, then slowly make it easy. Few, if anyone, will have adopted your product and service, by the time it is. You must 1st start easy, and then add features as you go along.
I wish more developers understood marketing and human behavior.
#Foss #OpenSource #Development #Marketing #MarketResearch #Mastodon #Misskey #ActivityPub
@Linux @shanmukhateja @housepanther easy doesn't mean fewer features; it means invisible features. Not having to read something, or do more clicks, or remember something. Easy requires a good library of "user stories" that are tested and benchmarked. It requires research, like watching someone new to the software use it for the first time. Easy is hard, honestly. But yeah that's how to be competitive.
@travisfw@fosstodon.org @shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza @housepanther@goblackcat.social It is not easy to be easy, that is true, but what is frustrating is when you have people telling you what they need, but the development ignores it all. There are a lot of FOSS developments that has feedback going back years, and they'll focus on being a geek, and forget your Grandma, and her needs last. -- They're so backwards in human nature.
FYI, you don't have years in the eyes of public opinion. If most development's had any sense, they'd keep their project a secret, showing their friends and family, getting feedback from people they knew who don't know tech. And only once it was easy for them, would they come out with their 1st public beta.
@Linux @shanmukhateja @travisfw @housepanther
"what is frustrating is when you have people telling you what they need, but the development ignores it all"
Many #freeSoftware developers are unpaid volunteers. If people tell them what they need, that's fine. But developers might listen closer, if they get paid or rewarded in some way, I guess.
@debacle@framapiaf.org @shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza @travisfw@fosstodon.org @housepanther@goblackcat.social Results get paid - Pay does not come before results.
Having said that, sometimes you cannot even pay people to do what is needed, because they'd rather geek out. Misskey, for example, would not even entertain post imports for 2,000+ offered.
#FreeSoftware #Foss #OpenSource
@Linux @shanmukhateja @travisfw @housepanther
My own experience is, that I get paid for my day job, very often before any results, but for #freeSoftware it's rather difficult to get funding.
The good thing is, if the source code is free and open, you do not depend on the original author. If the original authors don't implement your pet feature for 2000 ₤, maybe somebody else does?
Btw. my employer paid for various free software enhancements, e.g. #modemManager, #ejabberd, #libstrophe.
@debacle@framapiaf.org @shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza @travisfw@fosstodon.org @housepanther@goblackcat.social Money - And I mean real money, is contract work. Because no one in their right mind is dropping 10k or more on a promise, that may not deliver.
Sharkey, is an example, of a development that wanted money up front. 1,000 from me, and another 1,000 from others, only for them to take the money and run.
And real money, doesn't follow a development as a soft-fork, it goes to the source, so it can be maintained long-term. More so, the idea would be for most soft-forks to include that new feature, doubling your investment.
#Sharkey #Foss #OpenSource #ActivityPub