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if you understand why someone might have a disinclination to participate in reddit, twitter, facebook, etc. because you don't want to support a shitty company's platform (that you don't even want to use) with your own authorship effort and emotional energy, then you also understand part of the disinclination of libre software developers to invest the frankly ridiculous amount of effort it takes to make their usually-gratis passion project work well on microsoft platforms.

even if it's where the people are.

dear authors of chat programs: please stop putting one-click buttons for voice and video calls in easy-to-accidentally-press locations. at least make it a submenu, or add a conformation dialog before calling. terrible, terrible user experience.

wow, i just saw something really rude.
vocalist of a live band just asked the crowd to "make some noise for [so-and-so] on the drums" after a song where the drummer clearly demonstrated they were capable of producing noise well enough on their own

roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you

and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops

it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed

twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you