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 The general public doesn’t adopt digital technologies. It adopts products. People don’t use TCP/IP and HTTP. They browse websites on the web with a browser. They don’t use SMTP and IMAP. They send and receive emails. One of the toughest challenges of our time is to develop appealing products and open standards simultaneously. Those are primarily not technical but social and political problems. "The web doesn't belong just to software engineers. The more we make the web complex, the more we push normal users into the enclosures that we like to call social networks."
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@thibaultamartin this post has been shared multiple times in my timeline, and I don't get it tbh. The reason why Wordpress and similar are so complex is because non-technical users value WYSIWYG editors, backwards compatibility and extensibility. If we'd start with something fresh and approachable, I'd suspect we'd end up with similar complexity in no time. @thibaultamartin I see Loris Cro is still linked to twitter on his page, so that's a down vote...  @thibaultamartin @kdenlive @thibaultamartin I need to give it a shot. I tried Olive and now I am searching of something else |
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@thibaultamartin It’s amazing how hard this message is to spread. It’s as if the people who make things don’t interact with potential customers! 😏
@thibaultamartin "there's no demand for IPv6". Of course not. Only 0.001% of folk *should* care about IP protocol types. What people and organisations want is that their apps and services work, which means upgrading the legacy Internet to something that works with the quantities we face today, at the qualities demanded.
@thibaultamartin Or they are computer literacy issues.
Not knowing what httpS is means you can't figure out if the site you're connecting to has any assurance of identity.
I've often said that a problem with "Linux desktop" type movements is that they try to sell users on a non-committal soup of UIs, so that only users who understand formats & protocols will be able to find what they need in the OS. But there is a balance that has to be struck somewhere; users can't navigate computing in general unless they gain a level of understanding of formats & protocols.
@thibaultamartin Or they are computer literacy issues.
Not knowing what httpS is means you can't figure out if the site you're connecting to has any assurance of identity.
I've often said that a problem with "Linux desktop" type movements is that they try to sell users on a non-committal soup of UIs, so that only users who understand formats & protocols will be able to find what they need in the OS. But there is a balance that has to be struck somewhere; users can't navigate computing in general...