Communities and people doesn’t adopt digital technologies—they adopt #KISS tools. People don’t use TCP/IP or HTTP; they browse websites. They don’t think about SMTP or IMAP when sending emails. People don’t think about ActivityPub at all. They interact with intuitive projects that abstract these technical layers away.
One of the toughest challenges working at the grassroots of #DIY tech is creating#FOSS tools while ensuring they align with #4open standards and good #UX. This mostly isn’t only a technical challenge; it’s primarily a social and political one. Unfortunately, it’s been a difficult conversation to have in openweb and #FOSS spaces so far. It’s a large part of the mess we are in, we need to work to compost this mess, the #geekproblem
#SocialHub has often tried to build a bridge for this conversation, and at times it has failed in this. How can we do this better?
https://hamishcampbell.com/communities-adopt-kiss-tools-not-technologies/