• _____@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    corporations can create good applications and tooling, they also create toxic dark pattern applications

    open source devs can create air tight software or they can make some dingus word alternatives that just doesn’t work at all

    I love open source but there are certainly some bad programs out there (for free though)

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      2 months ago

      It’s the dark patterns for me. I recently switched from Plex to Jellyfin for my media server and it was night and day. My server was front and center on the client with absolutely zero bs in Jellyfin, while in Plex it’s been buried and shuffled in with a mountain of garbage ad supported content I never wanted