Apparently many manufacturers do this, Creality, Soval etc.

It would be great if the EU and US blocked the sale of products that violate Open-Source liscences.

Should solve the problem fairly quickly

Prusa’s are damn nice and as Open-Source as can be.

I just wish they weren’t 3/4x the price

I don’t want to be the guy to tell my boss I’ve bricked the F-35

a big part of UX is having good defaults.

Lemmy’s defaults don’t work for most people, every time I try to promote it on reddit I’m met with doezens of people complaining about how shit and confusing the UI is.

Review of the two experiences:

With PieFed I can just keep scrolling without needing to click. Things just work and are where I expect them to be (based on pas UX experiences (reddit)) I can see way more content without ever getting confused or needing to click or make decisions, making me stay curious and engaged. Where as with Lemmy I very quickly got frustrated and confused, making me want to abandon ship and do something else, and I’m way way way more resilient than the vast majority of users

– open https://piefed.social/ – met with some interesting image from c/selfhosted
–keep scrolling – some news articles, not really my vibe

– keep scrolling – cut cat picture from c/cat – keep scrolling

– some meme about cars and fuck Trump, cool – keep scrolling – more memes and cats, keep scrolling – this keeps happening, doezens of more memes and cats – repeat

– bunch of posts I don’t have to click to open, I can see the image clearly and what’s happening
– interesting but I can just keep scrolling – bottom of the pace, have to click next

– more semi interseting things
– keep scrolling, click next again

– eventually find something interesting enough to interact with and leave a comment, of move on.

– open https://lemmy.ml/
– met with a list of posts, most images too small for me to see or read.
– click on first post so that I can see the image - https://lemmy.ml/post/42503928 – taken to a page where I still can’t see the image I clicked to see – Click on the image, now I can see it.

– See some comments
– now I need to click back to continue

– see another interesting post, image to small, can’t see so I have to click – https://lemmy.ml/post/42501566
– Still can’t see image so I click on the image – now I’m taken to https://mecha.so/comet#overview
– WTF, why am I on a different site? Why am I here,where are the comments – Realisze I can’t distinguish between Image posts and Links to a different site. – Why is this so confusing to browse?

Good UX is all about removing friction and making users have to click less and think less.

Users these days are expect their hands to be held and things to just work, that sadly is just the reality.

Let me start off with saying, I started on Lemmy and even donated to Lemmy, PieFed can only grow because it’s standing on the shoulders of giants (lemmy)

My alt is AnonomousWolf, you can look it up, since I joined I complained about bat UX, but people told me to GTFO. PieFed fixes many of those issues I complained about.

Let me do a quick test and walk you through my thought possesses and UX. I’ll make 2 comments in this post, one for lemmy.ml one for piefed.social

To me. It’s the same thing but PieFed has better UX and more featues.

Which one you pick is for the most part irrelevant.

UX is everything.

Because I don’t want to give people more descion fatigue I picked the one I felt had the best UX

Fair point,

I omitted Facebook in my image because fuck that kind of social media (my opinion)

I picked PieFed over Lemmy because UX is everything and currently PieFed has much better UX.

That person was me.

I’ve promoted Lemmy in the past only to be met with comments complaining about the ‘dogshit UX’ and tankeis.

So I switched to promoting PieFed instead, and have had no such complaints.

This is why I stopped promoting Lemmy and switched to PieFed.

UX is everything, and Lemmy UX sucked. The default UX (for your average user) is dog shit.

People want ‘it just works’ and PieFed offers that more than Lemmy does.

To users they’re both mostly the same but PieFed has more features and a much better UX, so it’s the one I choose to promote.

Crosspost from: !Fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com ( A community for growing the Fediverse )

Devil’s Advocate: This was used for entertainment, if you think this is a huge waste of electricity then so is gaming en especially flying.

If you criticize people using AI for entertainment then you also need to criticize people who take flights on holiday, as that’s a LOT more damaging for the environment.

How so? It’s used entertainment.

Just like playing games

Yea Nextcloud already has a replacement for most of Microsoft. 365 and is Open Source.

No need to reinvent the wheel

Good on them, but I Wonder why they can’t just build on top of something open source like Nextcloud.

It already has the majority of the Office-365 suite